Moving files around

2009-11-09 Thread STeve Andre'
For simple large files, is there a faster way to move them rather than using mv? I have a lot of large files (10G) that need to be rearranged on which disk they reside on. Thanks, STeve Andre'

Re: Moving files around

2009-11-09 Thread Brynet
STeve Andre wrote: For simple large files, is there a faster way to move them rather than using mv? I have a lot of large files (10G) that need to be rearranged on which disk they reside on. Hi, If the files are on the same partition, mv(1) or ln(1) will be almost instantanous.. otherwise

Re: Moving files around

2009-11-09 Thread Christopher Zimmermann
On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 13:34:24 -0500 STeve Andre' and...@msu.edu wrote: For simple large files, is there a faster way to move them rather than using mv? I have a lot of large files (10G) that need to be rearranged on which disk they reside on. Thanks, STeve Andre' I have not tried it,

Re: Moving files around

2009-11-09 Thread STeve Andre'
On Monday 09 November 2009 14:30:56 Brynet wrote: STeve Andre wrote: For simple large files, is there a faster way to move them rather than using mv? I have a lot of large files (10G) that need to be rearranged on which disk they reside on. Hi, If the files are on the same

Re: Moving files around

2009-11-09 Thread Janne Johansson
Brynet wrote: STeve Andre wrote: For simple large files, is there a faster way to move them rather than using mv? I have a lot of large files (10G) that need to be rearranged on which disk they reside on. If the files are on the same partition, mv(1) or ln(1) will be almost