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Re: Two questions: Moving Directories, Ctrl-Z
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 06:05:44PM -0800, Mark Allan Young wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:44:31PM -0800, Mark Allan Young wrote:
>> >One thing I've noticed that changed with our recent upgrade
>> >to 1.1.8 was that moving a directory now seems to perform a copy
>> >and remove rather than just renaming a directory. Is there a way
>> >to just force the rename? what's the benefit of the copy over the
>> >rename?
>>
>> I just tried this. An "mv" in cygwin moves the directory without
>> copying.
>>
>> If it isn't doing this for you we'll need details.
>
>I can send an strace if you like, but I'll need to send it directly to
>you, as it get's pretty long... is there something else I could do to
>get you the information you require...?
Before you send an strace, please send some obvious details like type of
disk (FAT, NTFS), contents of directory, cygcheck output, etc. A very
simple test case is always preferable.
cgf
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