I'm not sure you answered my question. I was wondering how a file can be moved from one partition to another. How are the actual bits getting transferred? It's not the same partition so you can't just move an inode to another directory entry on a different filesystem, right? I was able to "move" a file from a ubifs partition to an ext3 partition. So, I'm still wondering what's going on here.

As far as Bruce's good work, I was reffering to the "idea" of putting the Fremantle build environment on the n900. Bruce's actual approach would blow up my root partition. I just can't believe I've been so dense; I've always been using the debian lenny build tools in a chroot, but now I'm gonna use the actual Fremantle build setup in a cloned partition. Doh! That's why I'm stoked.

Sorry I wasn't more clear.