I have a harddrive that is externally connected to my Alpha that is mounted
in the file system. I am running 4.0d. The mount point is
/usr/smalldir/bigdir. The files used to reside in bigdir, but as they are
files that don't ever need to be backed up I wanted to put them on a
different drive and then mount them so that I could decrease the size of the
/usr dump. So, I mounted the drive to /mnt did a gtar -cvpf
/usr/smalldir/bigdir | gtar -xvf - from the /mnt directory to move them.
Is there an easier way besides tarring from the directory and piping to ( cd
/mnt ; gtar -xvpf - )?
Anyhoo, that put the files in /mnt/usr/smalldir/bigdir. I went into bigdir
and did cd .. * and repeated until all of the files and directories were in
/mnt. I umount'ed /mnt and then mounted the partition to /usr/bigdir/small
dir after deleting the files and directories there. Now to the crux of my
problem. When I do a `ls a*` I get something like this:
000001ofl.wtl
025049ofl.wtl
pscl_wtl.tar
This is not all of the files I have, but obviously none of the ones here
start with 'a'. I have tried this in bash, chs and sh in case I was running
into some kind of shell peculiarity, but the result is the same. Also, on
another machine where I have not yet performed this action I get the proper
response. So, why do I get these strange results? Did I mess something up
with my convoluted moving procedure?
Any insight would be apprecitated.
Trevor Osatchuk
Process Solutions Canada Ltd.
Support and Integration Analyst
(780) 452-2227 Ext. 286
trevor.osatchuk_at_pscl.com
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer, speaking of Albert Einstein
Received on Fri Dec 07 2001 - 18:59:53 NZDT