I am doing an "rsync" from one array to another. I looked at the the files on the disk to which I am copying this morning. "ls" showed three copies of some of the folders and one copy of others. "ls -sal" showed that the three copies of a folder, seemed to have the same contents. I made a new directory newadmin, "cd"ed into the admin directory, "mv" all the files in the admin directory to newadmin, "cd .." and did another listing. Now all the directories were there, but the duplicates were gone. Why did this happen? nas-0-0 dist]# ls admin bco cha jad admin bco class admin bco class ls -sal admin total 4 0 drwxrwxrwx 4 nobody nobody 52 Dec 25 2011 . 4 drwxrwxrwx 34 root root 4096 Apr 21 08:28 .. 0 drwxrwxrwx 3 nobody nobody 55 Sep 14 2007 atipa 0 drwxrwxrwx 2 nobody nobody 87 Oct 15 2007 export-restore 0 -rw-rw-rw- 1 nobody nobody 0 Sep 10 2007 ge.out [root@nas-0-0 dist]# ls -sal admin* admin: total 4 0 drwxrwxrwx 4 nobody nobody 52 Dec 25 2011 . 4 drwxrwxrwx 34 root root 4096 Apr 21 08:28 .. 0 drwxrwxrwx 3 nobody nobody 55 Sep 14 2007 atipa 0 drwxrwxrwx 2 nobody nobody 87 Oct 15 2007 export-restore 0 -rw-rw-rw- 1 nobody nobody 0 Sep 10 2007 ge.out admin: total 4 0 drwxrwxrwx 4 nobody nobody 52 Dec 25 2011 . 4 drwxrwxrwx 34 root root 4096 Apr 21 08:28 .. 0 drwxrwxrwx 3 nobody nobody 55 Sep 14 2007 atipa 0 drwxrwxrwx 2 nobody nobody 87 Oct 15 2007 export-restore 0 -rw-rw-rw- 1 nobody nobody 0 Sep 10 2007 ge.out [root@nas-0-0 dist]# cd admin [root@nas-0-0 admin]# ls atipa export-restore ge.out [root@nas-0-0 admin]# cd .. [root@nas-0-0 dist]# mkdir newadmin [root@nas-0-0 dist]# cd admin [root@nas-0-0 admin]# ls atipa export-restore ge.out [root@nas-0-0 admin]# mv * ../newadmin [root@nas-0-0 admin]# ls [root@nas-0-0 admin]# cd .. [root@nas-0-0 dist]# ls -sal admin total 4 0 drwxrwxrwx 2 nobody nobody 6 Apr 24 08:44 . 4 drwxrwxrwx 35 root root 4096 Apr 24 08:44 .. "ls" now shows the directories without duplications. [root@nas-0-0 dist]# ls admin ... jad ... cha ... bco ... class ... -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list