Lynn,
Try strace'ing your mv command to see where the time goes, like so:
cd /c
strace -o mv.strace mv OldDir NewDir
and look through /c/mv.strace. For more info on strace, "man strace"
(which also has a pointer to the web page). The file may be large, so you
may want to compress
My understanding of the way that 'mv' works is that it will try to RENAME the
file or directory in question provided the source and destination are on the
same partition otherwise it will do a COPY.
If I mv (in the sense of renaming) a large directory that is buried deep in some
other director
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