[realNoName]

ok i just have a quick linux command question, i have a drive mounted at /mnt/raid that has a lot of folders and i want to move them all to /mnt/raid/media so would this command work? am not that good at linux and i just wanted to check that this will work because i dont want to mess anything up

mv -r /mnt/raid /mnt/raid/media

[no2pencil]

To further show what Neumann has just explained, you can check the output of df to view all of your mount-points along with their block names.

[realNoName]

oops i little type-o maybe i should had put -> mv -r /mnt/raid/* /mnt/riad/media/
would that work?

Neumann, on 15 Sep, 2009 - 05:01 PM, said:

/mnt/raid points to the root directory of the mounted partition. The previous directory structure of /mnt/raid is now invisible to the OS. In addition, you're trying to copy the directory onto itself - it doesn't make sense and won't work anyway.

i know but i want to move all 100 folders that are in /mnt/raid into /mnt/raid/media, so is there an easy way of that that?

[no2pencil]

as long as media already exists. I would drop the dash r.

mv /mnt/raid/* /mnt/raid/media/

That will move all files & directories. So if you have any sub directories, it will move those too.

/mnt/raid/dir1/dir2/file

will be moved to

/mnt/raid/media/dir/dir2/file

Everything.

[realNoName]

ok thanks, i wanted to double check just because when it gets to the media folder i didn't know what it would do because that 1 folder isn't moving just every thing else if getting moved into it

[no2pencil]

When it tries to move media it will complain about moving a directory into itself.

[olibenu]

maybe u want to unmount it and mount it in the new folder