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Moving files in Linux?
electricitylikesme
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Is there an easy way to move a large number of files around in Linux when you expect the move to be interrupted? The 'mv' command is proving itself pretty damn worthless at the moment.
My problem is I'm running glusterfs on a single machine to cluster all it's disks together as one big drive. This is not seamless, but my problem is the cluster is very very full as it is - so I can't copy files around and then delete them (unless I use a network computer as a temp drive). But, gluster will also periodically throw an error if it starts trying to move say, a DVD image to a drive with only 2gb of free space left.
What I need, is something that will work like the 'mv' command and just rename the files, but which will let me merge large directory trees with it (i.e. Movies has an identical file structure to glusters "Movies" - lots of individual folders but not all containing files. I want the command to fill the directories in the destination that are empty with files from the source that are in directories with the same name).
Is there a command in linux to do this? I refuse to believe there isn't but damned if I can find it. I'm running Debian 'etch' incidentally.
My problem is I'm running glusterfs on a single machine to cluster all it's disks together as one big drive. This is not seamless, but my problem is the cluster is very very full as it is - so I can't copy files around and then delete them (unless I use a network computer as a temp drive). But, gluster will also periodically throw an error if it starts trying to move say, a DVD image to a drive with only 2gb of free space left.
What I need, is something that will work like the 'mv' command and just rename the files, but which will let me merge large directory trees with it (i.e. Movies has an identical file structure to glusters "Movies" - lots of individual folders but not all containing files. I want the command to fill the directories in the destination that are empty with files from the source that are in directories with the same name).
Is there a command in linux to do this? I refuse to believe there isn't but damned if I can find it. I'm running Debian 'etch' incidentally.
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You could also use this little bash script:
I think that will move directories as well as files.
Edit: beat'd. That's what I get for looking at manpages before posting. ;-)