How do I move file a to a different partition or device in Node.js?

Question

I\'m trying to move a file from one partition to another in a Node.js script. When I used fs.renameSync I received Error: EXDEV, Cross-device link.

Answer 1

One more solution to the problem.

There's a package called fs.extra written by "coolaj86" on npm.

You use it like so: npm install fs.extra

fs = require ('fs.extra');
fs.move ('foo.txt', 'bar.txt', function (err) {
    if (err) { throw err; }
    console.log ("Moved 'foo.txt' to 'bar.txt'");
});

I've read the source code for this thing. It attempts to do a standard fs.rename() then, if it fails, it does a copy and deletes the original using the same util.pump() that @chandru uses.