i telnetted into my unraid server and "mv" from files to a different directory (share)

 

my share is called movies

 

and I went "mv foobar ../../movies

 

the files are gone from the previous directory, but dont show up in the movies share.

look in the movies directory two directories up from where you were when you moved the files.

If you were in /mnt/user/foo/bar when you executed the mv command the files will be in /mnt/user/movies

In a POSIX environment ../ means one directory higher in the directory tree so ../../ means 2 directories higher.

Make sure you take care of this pronto and do NOT reboot.  If the files get copied up into the RAMFS and you shut down they will be lost

look in the movies directory two directories up from where you were when you moved the files.

If you were in /mnt/user/foo/bar when you executed the mv command the files will be in /mnt/user/movies

In a POSIX environment ../ means one directory higher in the directory tree so ../../ means 2 directories higher.

Make sure you take care of this pronto and do NOT reboot.  If the files get copied up into the RAMFS and you shut down they will be lost

If the folder you thought you copied to was actually named "Movies" then your file will be named "movies"  (Capitalization matters)

 

If you changed  directory to

/mnt/user/Movies

and your file being moved was

/mnt/user/Movies/something/your_movie.ISO

and you copied it to

../../movies

it is now in a file named movies on the root of one of the disks.  You re-named it "movies" since a directory with that name did not exist.

 

If you copied the file to the top level of a disk, the it would not appear in any share.  In other words, a file named

/mnt/disk1/movies

will not show in any share.  It will show if you look in /mnt/disk1

 

If you were in /mnt/user/Movies

and typed the command you described the file is named "movies" but in /mnt/user  (in the RAM file system) as mentioned in the previous post, do not reboot or it will be gone.

 

When copying or moving files to a directory, ALWAYS use a final "slash" on the target directory.  Then if you get the path wrong, the file will not move/copy, an error message will print, and you won't be wondering what happened.

 

The better command would have been

mv foobar ../../movies/

 

Then, if "movies" did not exist, you would have gotten an error message.

 

Joe L.

 

this is really odd.

 

I am on a mac and when I connect to my unRaid server via NFS, I do not see my files.

However, when I connect over smb, I see the files? Could this be a bug?

 

 

this is really odd.

 

I am on a mac and when I connect to my unRaid server via NFS, I do not see my files.

However, when I connect over smb, I see the files? Could this be a bug?

 

Please refer to this sticky message at the top of the General Support forum ...

 

Include your VERSION and SYSTEM LOG for support issues

i figured it out. it was a permissions deal.

i changed them all to 777 and now i can view the files in either smb or nfs protocol.

 

but now my question is what do you guys set the permission as?