Cannot move folder to a subdirectoy of itself - What's going on?
O.K I am trying to do the following very simple command and it is failing as follows...
mv '/home/admin/Downloads/folder1' '/home/admin/MyLibrary/MyVideos/TV/folder1/'
mv: cannot move `/home/admin/Downloads/folder1' to a subdirectory of itself, `/home/admin/MyLibrary/MyVideos/TV/folder1/'
The destination is NOT a subfolder of the source - why is it giving me this error?? Linux version is a custom version of Red Hat on a NAS box. Thanks
edit:
In case my filesystem is incorrect added output of df -h
-bash-3.2$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 212M 156M 56M 74% /
ubi0:rootfs 212M 156M 56M 74% /
none 62M 40K 62M 1% /dev
nodev 62M 28K 62M 1% /var/log
nodev 62M 1.1M 61M 2% /mnt/tmpfs
nodev 62M 0 62M 0% /var/lib/php/session
nodev 3.7T 932G 2.8T 25% /tmp
nodev 62M 1.1M 61M 2% /var/run
nodev 62M 1.1M 61M 2% /var/cache
nodev 62M 1.1M 61M 2% /var/lib/axentra_sync
df: `/var/lib/oe-admin/minions': Permission denied
df: `/var/lib/oe-admin/actions': Permission denied
nodev 62M 1.1M 61M 2% /var/lib/oe-update-checker
nodev 62M 1.1M 61M 2% /etc/blkid
nodev 62M 1.1M 61M 2% /var/lib/dbus
nodev 62M 1.1M 61M 2% /var/lib/dhclient
nodev 62M 1.1M 61M 2% /var/lock
nodev 62M 1.1M 61M 2% /var/spool
nodev 62M 1.1M 61M 2% /var/lib/avahi-autoipd
nodev 62M 1.1M 61M 2% /etc/dhclient-eth0.conf
nodev 62M 1.1M 61M 2% /etc/printcap
nodev 62M 1.1M 61M 2% /etc/resolv.conf
/dev/md0 1.9T 473G 1.4T 26% /mnt/disk1
/dev/sdb1 1.9T 459G 1.4T 25% /mnt/disk2
none 3.7T 932G 2.8T 25% /home
none 3.7T 932G 2.8T 25% /tmp
none 3.7T 932G 2.8T 25% /var/cache/mt-daapd
second edit:
I should have mentioned this at the time but Its only just dawned on me that this NAS has two physical disks in a JBOD configuration (treating two disks as one filesystem). This is the contents of /proc/mounts..
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
ubi0:rootfs / ubifs rw 0 0
/proc /proc proc rw 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs rw 0 0
/proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
none /dev tmpfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
nodev /var/log tmpfs rw 0 0
nodev /mnt/tmpfs tmpfs rw 0 0
nodev /var/lib/php/session tmpfs rw 0 0
nodev /tmp tmpfs rw 0 0
nodev /var/run tmpfs rw 0 0
nodev /var/cache tmpfs rw 0 0
nodev /var/lib/axentra_sync tmpfs rw 0 0
nodev /var/lib/oe-admin/minions tmpfs rw 0 0
nodev /var/lib/oe-admin/actions tmpfs rw 0 0
nodev /var/lib/oe-update-checker tmpfs rw 0 0
nodev /etc/blkid tmpfs rw 0 0
nodev /var/lib/dbus tmpfs rw 0 0
nodev /var/lib/dhclient tmpfs rw 0 0
nodev /var/lock tmpfs rw 0 0
nodev /var/spool tmpfs rw 0 0
nodev /var/lib/avahi-autoipd tmpfs rw 0 0
nodev /etc/dhclient-eth0.conf tmpfs rw 0 0
nodev /etc/printcap tmpfs rw 0 0
nodev /etc/resolv.conf tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/md0 /mnt/disk1 xfs rw,noatime,nodiratime,grpid 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/disk2 xfs rw,noatime,nodiratime,grpid 0 0
none /home aufs rw,si=c7f860a0,xino=/mnt/disk1/.aufs.xino,noplink,create=mfs,sum,br:/mnt/disk1=rw:/mnt/disk2=rw 0 0
none /tmp aufs rw,si=c7f860a0,xino=/mnt/disk1/.aufs.xino,noplink,create=mfs,sum,br:/mnt/disk1=rw:/mnt/disk2=rw 0 0
none /var/cache/mt-daapd aufs rw,si=c7f860a0,xino=/mnt/disk1/.aufs.xino,noplink,create=mfs,sum,br:/mnt/disk1=rw:/mnt/disk2=rw 0 0
Output of fsck /home
fsck /home
fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
e2fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
fsck.ext2: Is a directory while trying to open /home
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
I don't have anything in my logs folder that looks relevant - thanks for your input.
-bash-3.2$ pwd
/var/log
-bash-3.2$ ls
cups dmesg httpd igd-client samba wtmp xferlog
Third Edit
Included contents of fstab
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# file system mount type options dump pass
#/dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
#/dev/sda3 /home ext3 defaults,bsdgroups,noatime,nodiratime 0 0
## other examples, uncomment to activate
#/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
nodev /var/log tmpfs
nodev /mnt/tmpfs tmpfs
ubi0:rootfs / ubifs defaults 1 1
nodev /var/lib/php/session tmpfs defaults
Solution 1:
Are you sure? Maybe there are is a symlink and the destination path actually is a subfolder of the source path. Compare the output of readlink -e /home/admin/Downloads/folder1 and readlink -e /home/admin/MyLibrary/MyVideos/TV/folder1.