MV command

[Malaya Padhy]

I am getting the error
cannot set file owner or group: Permission denied while moving directory from one to another location.

Can you please let me know the appropiate methode to overcome this error.

[johnsonpk]

Hi Malaya,

Are you executing mv command as root ?
what is the permission of the source and destination directories ?

Regds
Johnson

[Patrick Wallek]

Is the destination an NFS mount point?

Showing the command that you used may be helpful as well.

[Nido]

Hi,

Error is for "Permission Denied".
You should have write permission on the Destination Direcory to move the files.


Thanks,

[Dennis Handly]

>cannot set file owner or group: Permission denied while moving directory from one to another location.

You can get this error if you are moving the directory from one filesystem to another. In this case, the directory tree must be copied.
If you don't have CHOWN privilege, you may get this. See getprivgrp(1).

[B. Hulst]

How about doing first a copy and after the copy is successful you perform a delete of the old location? Much easier to troubleshoot...