how to move imported disks folders to different data sets?

gwaitsi

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I imported my data from linux via disk import, but i see it is necessary to create datasets separately for each folder and then move that data into the data sets.

data_set
/mnt/data/home/user1
/mnt/data/home/user2
/mnt/data/home/user3

imported folders
/mnt/data/home/user1
/mnt/data/home/user2
/mnt/data/home/user3

i have renamed the imported folders to

/mnt/data/home/user1.bck
/mnt/data/home/user2.bck
/mnt/data/home/user3.bck

how can i move the data from each folder into the correct data set?
 

gwaitsi

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man rsync

i don't want to copy it, i want to move it. i would just use cp to use it.
but mv doesn't seem to cover recursive files/directories to a new destination
i.e. i end up with user1, user1.ck
 

garm

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mv wont delete until you finish copying, and you can do rsync --remove-source-files.. go back to man rsync..
 
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