Re: THANKS !!! HELP! mv problem

2000-01-21 Thread cedric
Thank you to all that responded. I sure am glad this group is here. I found the directory and all is well. I have Debian now and will begin installing later today. Thanks again. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.pacifier.com/~cedric Linux Powered

Re: HELP! mv problem

2000-01-21 Thread doug
> I did: > mv /home/cedric/mydocs /mnt/LS120 > so I could backup /home/cedric/mydocs to a LS120 Super > Drive that has worked fine for months. If /mnt/LS120 was an existing directory at the time you should have a /mnt/LS120/mydocs dir. If it didn't exist then your documents should be in /mnt/LS1

Re: HELP! mv problem

2000-01-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting cedric ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I did: > mv /home/cedric/mydocs /mnt/LS120 > so I could backup /home/cedric/mydocs to a LS120 Super > Drive that has worked fine for months. If you're backing up, you want cp (I use cp -ip) not mv. > I had not mounted the LS120 yet so I did: > mount /mnt/LS12

Re: HELP! mv problem

2000-01-21 Thread Steve Rothanburg
umount /mnt/LS120 mv /mnt/LS120/mydocs /home/cedric mount /mnt/LS120 mv /home/cedric/mydocs /mnt/LS120 when you mount a drive it will hide what ever was in that directory until you unmount it. Steve. cedric wrote: > > I did: > mv /home/cedric/mydocs /mnt/LS120 > so I could backup /home/cedric/m

HELP! mv problem

2000-01-21 Thread cedric
I did: mv /home/cedric/mydocs /mnt/LS120 so I could backup /home/cedric/mydocs to a LS120 Super Drive that has worked fine for months. I had not mounted the LS120 yet so I did: mount /mnt/LS120 which worked fine. Then I did; mv /home/cedric/mydocs /mnt/LS120 and got a message telling me /home/ced