From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 21 11: 9: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.san.rr.com (smtp1.san.rr.com [24.25.195.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13B8A37B403 for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 11:08:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 24-161-164-113.san.rr.com (24-161-164-113.san.rr.com [24.161.164.113]) by smtp1.san.rr.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g4LI8sB17121 for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 11:08:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 11:08:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: root@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com To: FreeBSD Questions LIST Subject: mv directoryhere [vs.] tar/untar Message-ID: <20020521105704.N196-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A question somewhat along the lines of whichcamefirstchickenoregg but also along the lines of preference... When moving a large directory (for example, from my mounted /msdos directory to my FreeBSD mount), in the interest of time and data integrity, is it better to mv a directory or tar it to, then "untar" it in, the new location? I might have recently damaged some mp3 files during a huge "mv" process by frequently interrupting it with ctrl-z (suspend), "bg %1" (for example), and SIGHUP and/or killing the process. Final comment... isn't there a "smart" mv command or flag that interweaves subdirectories together (i.e. if one already exists at the destination)? -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message