Stephen Gran on 3 Aug 2004 21:23:02 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] PDF weirdness


On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 03:24:24PM -0400, George Gallen said:
> Is the directory your in on the same filesystem as /tmp?
> 
> Could gv be creating a file on ., then trying to do a
> mv ./file /tmp/.....  mv will fail if the two filename
> are on different filesystems.

??

steve@gashuffer:~$ mount
[...]
/dev/hda5 on /tmp type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda7 on /home type ext3 (rw)
steve@gashuffer:~$ pwd
/home/steve
steve@gashuffer:~$ echo 1 > foo
steve@gashuffer:~$ echo 2 > /tmp/foo
steve@gashuffer:~$ mv ./foo /tmp/
steve@gashuffer:~$ cat foo
cat: foo: No such file or directory
steve@gashuffer:~$ cat /tmp/foo
1

mv does not fail across filesystems, or am I misinterpreting something?
Are you thinking of ln -s?
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