May 10, 201610 yr Hi all, Hoping for some help here. I'm about to upgrade a drive on my server and went to use mc through putty to move all the files off the disk (disk5) to another disk (disk2). When moving the files every single file is duplicated on disk2. Is this normal behaviour? I have not done this on purpose to my knowledge! I've not yet deleted the files from disk 2 in case something odd is going on... I've got 2 questions really: a) Is there a way to detect duplicate files on the server? b) And how can I be sure the files are not going to be lost when indexers them from disk 2? Thanks in advance! Phil
May 10, 201610 yr http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=35183.0 This should check for duplicates. Duplicates can happen, when you do disk to disk copy commands.
May 10, 201610 yr Community Expert If you told mc to move the files, then it will copy all the files to the destination before deleting them from the source.
May 11, 201610 yr Author http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=35183.0 This should check for duplicates. Duplicates can happen, when you do disk to disk copy commands. Perfect thanks! Strange behaviour from mc that it waits until the end of the move command to delete the source files? I would have expected it to remove from the source once the individual file had moved as it goes along. Never mind, I've learnt something new. Thanks both! Phil
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