From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2007-04-20T15:22:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Cross-device link error

Hi,

At Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:45:06 +0900,
Greg wrote in [ruby-talk:248510]:
> Working through Pine's Programming book and got this error (complete at 
> bottom):
> 
> Cross-device link -...(Errno::EXDEV)
> 
> Trying to read photos from a memory card to hard drive and rename them. 

File.rename doesn't copy file content, just change the name.
So it can't move a file across devices.  You may want to use
FileUtils.cp method.

-- 
Nobu Nakada