On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 19:42 -0700, jackson byers wrote: > ----- > my question: isn't it true that use of 'mv' is much faster than 'cp' > or rsync? > ie to "copy everything somewhere else" > instead > "mv everything somewhere else" > and > instead of > "..and copy back" > do > ".. mv back" mv is faster if you are on the same partition since the data is not moved just the pointer to the data is changed. If you are using mv to transfer to a different disk or partition it probably a little slower. -- ======================================================================= Everything ends badly. Otherwise it wouldn't end. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
