When you are moving files with mv, the the mv command appears to copy all the files, then delete the ones at the source. This can be quite problematic when copying large numbers of files (in my case it was several thousand files amounting to nearly 200GB) in a quite deep file structure from one hard drive to another.
What happened was that the target hard drive was connected via USB, which got disconnected a few hours into the operation, and I had around 140GB in the target hard drive, but all the files still in the source hard drive. Needless to say it took me ages verifying what had copied and what hadn't before continuing the whole move from a GUI. Is there a way around it to make mv do the "copy, remove" operation iteratively per file, rather than as a single operation for all the files?
