From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 12 16:49:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from copernicus.tranquility.net (copernicus.tranquility.net [206.152.117.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E466437B402 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 16:49:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sid67@localhost) by copernicus.tranquility.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0D0qWU32330; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 18:52:32 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from sid67) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 18:52:31 -0600 From: Ben Weaver To: Christoph Sold Cc: Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mv /a/b/c/ .. Bug? Message-ID: <20010112185231.F32066@tranquility.net> References: <3A5F40FB.BA91E66A@i-clue.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A5F40FB.BA91E66A@i-clue.de>; from christoph.sold@server.i-clue.de on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 06:38:03PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, you might go back into the directory you were in when you executed that command then do the following: cd .. ls You will find your directory... -Ben On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 06:38:03PM +0100, Christoph Sold wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I just did something unwise: > > # mv /a/b/c/ .. > > Now the c directory is gone completely. Can anybody explain why and how? > > Here are the details: > > # df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > miraculix:/u/wd0 38788812 1608700 34077008 5% /a > # uname -a > FreeBSD amnesix.i-clue.de 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #1: Thu Dec 21 > 22:36:46 > CET 2000 so@amnesix.i-clue.de:/usr/src/sys/compile/AMNESIX-4.2-S > i386 > > Hope somebody jumps on this.. > -Christoph Sold > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message