Comments on: Linux: Cannot move folders – inter-device move failed, unable to remove target: Is a directory

By: Nathan Friend

Nathan Friend — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:56:39 +0000

Google Chrome 16.0.912.75 Mac OS X 10.7.2
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_2) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.75 Safari/535.7

Make’s sense, although the error message could be a bit more descriptive.

By: Tomas Lavicky

Tomas Lavicky — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:30:37 +0000

Chromium 14.0.835.202 Ubuntu 11.04 x64
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/11.04 Chromium/14.0.835.202 Chrome/14.0.835.202 Safari/535.1

I’ve met this problem for the first time after 10+ years of everyday using Linux. Strange thing – it appeared on only one of moved directories. “mv -b” works of course but it takes much more time and sources.

By: Ali

Ali — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:00:26 +0000

Firefox 5.0 Windows 7 x64 Edition
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0

Good point. Changed – thanks.

By: Neox

Neox — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 21:32:25 +0000

Google Chrome 12.0.742.124 GNU/Linux x64
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/12.0.742.124 Safari/534.30

Actually sda1 and sda2 implies that both are partitions of the same disk, so that would not cause this problem

By: Issue with "mv: inter-device move failed: "

Issue with "mv: inter-device move failed: " — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 11:54:56 +0000

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