Re: mv directories to new partition; rm directories

1997-08-11 Thread Carey Evans
"Gary L. Dolan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > Thanks for the information. If this is really a *bad* idea, it ought not > to be in the info program as a viable option to rm without some explanation. Actually, because it's such a bad idea, Linux (the kernel) doesn't let you do it. From fs/

Re: mv directories to new partition; rm directories

1997-08-11 Thread Will Lowe
On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Gary L. Dolan wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 1997 at 05:21:23PM -0400, Scott K. Ellis wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > > On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Gary L. Dolan wrote: > > > When I attempted to remove (as root) an old subdirectory under > > > /usr/local using 'rm -d'

Re: mv directories to new partition; rm directories

1997-08-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Gary" == Gary L Dolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gary> On Sun, Aug 10, 1997 at 05:21:23PM -0400, Scott K. Ellis wrote: Scott> You ABSOLUTLY NEVER want to use the -d option to rm. That will Scott> seriously corrupt your filesystem (it deletes the directory Scott> inode without deleting th

Re: mv directories to new partition; rm directories

1997-08-11 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Gary L. Dolan wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 1997 at 05:21:23PM -0400, Scott K. Ellis wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Gary L. Dolan wrote: > > > When I attempted to remove (as root) an old subdirectory under > > > /usr/local using 'rm -d', I got

Re: mv directories to new partition; rm directories

1997-08-11 Thread Gary L. Dolan
On Sun, Aug 10, 1997 at 05:21:23PM -0400, Scott K. Ellis wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Gary L. Dolan wrote: > > When I attempted to remove (as root) an old subdirectory under > > /usr/local using 'rm -d', I got an "Operation not permitted" > > response. The

Re: mv directories to new partition; rm directories

1997-08-10 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Gary L. Dolan wrote: > In doing a bit of experimenting before the big step, I have > copied the directory, including permissions, to the new > partition (which is presently mounted at /hdb4). I used > (cd /source; tar cf - .) | (cd /dest; ta

mv directories to new partition; rm directories

1997-08-10 Thread Gary L. Dolan
I want to move the directories in /usr/local to a new partition (just recovered from an old windows install). I thought I could do the following: 1. copy the directory structure under /usr/local to the new partition 2. remove the old directory structure under /usr/local 3. mount the new partiti