Re: Moving a Directory Across File Systems -- Unix

• Debra Ruggerie <druggerie_at_ugf.edu> on 08/09/02 15:23:19 -0800

> I need to free about 600 MB of space on a Unix file system so that I can
> create an export dump file of a database. Our sys admin is out of the
> office and I am trying to move a directory (it contains sub-directories)
> across file systems. According to the manual I have, mvdir only works
> within a file system; and I cannot find a command to copy a directory. Is
> there a way to do this??

kwikhak:

<shut down oracle>
cd $srcdir;
ls -ld $destdir; # convince yourself it exists. find . | cpio -pdv $destdir;
<eyeball the results, if it seems clean then fry $destdir and symlink the results back>.

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