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Date:      Fri, 12 Jan 2001 19:03:05 +0100
From:      Christoph Sold <christoph.sold@server.i-clue.de>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
Cc:        Christoph Sold <christoph.sold@server.ms-agentur.de>, Questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mv /a/b/c/ .. Bug?
Message-ID:  <3A5F46D9.AF466D3D@i-clue.de>
References:  <3A5F40FB.BA91E66A@i-clue.de> <20010112114858.A953@dan.emsphone.com>

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Dan,

thanks for your fast answer.

Dan Nelson schrieb:
> 
> In the last episode (Jan 12), Christoph Sold said:
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I just did something unwise:
> >
> > # mv /a/b/c/ ..
> >
> > Now the c directory is gone completely. Can anybody explain why and how?
> 
> It shouldn't be gone; it should be one directory up from whereever you
> ran the mv command.

It is gone, as I said. That's why I put the "Bug?" into the Subject.
Note this is mounted using NFS.

Still curiously looking after my files
-Christoph Sold


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