Describe how the mv command moves a file even though it doesn’t touch the data blocks belonging to the file.
What will be an ideal response?
The mv command merely alters the directory information about a particular file. A directory file
contains a pointer to the data blocks for each file in the directory. To move a file from dir1 to dir2,
mv removes the link to the data blocks from dir1 and inserts the pointer in dir2. The data blocks
themselves are never accessed.
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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