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Subject: Re: dired not bold enough to move directories
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Dan Jacobson wrote:

>  Well, gosh, if I can move a directory like this,
>    $ cd /var/tmp
>    $ mv affordablehost_logs ~/tmp
>  
>  then why can't I remame it with R in dired?

Because they are on separate partitions.
dired should behave like mv in such a case.