I'm doing an assignment for a Unix course at school.
I attempted to rename one of the shell programming questions from home to Q1 by typing:
mv home Q1
It returned a message saying
mv: cannot access home
And now there's no home or Q1 in the directory. Please help!
What happened to this? How did you resolve this? I am facing the same issue.
Please Help.
How much time a big file takes to rename?
At what level was "home" originally? (the pathname)
But What would make a file disappear?
Hard to say without knowing your syntax. Are you running CDE by chance? Check your trash? And how full is your disk?
No CDE.
It was a plain command
mv oldfile newfile:
Would still like to know how full your HDD is.
I'm running HP-UX 11.0 using the CDE (Common Desktop Environment) on an HP b2600 Workstation.
What are you running and on what?
It sits at 15% used. Space is no issue.
Running on AIX
Have you tried to duplicate the issue on an innocuous file?