CP files/directories within mounted btrfs drive

This is related to the thread i opened Mounting old BTRFS Drive - #5 by dalto. I am trying to copy files/directories within the drive and get the following error when I try cp or mv:

[root@MAUL ~]# cp /media/nvme0n1p2/@home/secdoc/Documents/OS_ISO/Metasploitable2-Linux/Metasplotable.qcow2 /media/nvme0n1p2/@/var/lib/libvirt/images/cp: cannot stat '/media/nvme0n1p2/@home/secdoc/Documents/OS_ISO/Metasploitable2-Linux/Metasplotable.qcow2': No such file or directory
[root@MAUL ~]# 

The terminal snippet above was with root, but previously tried using sudo with my user. I understand that there could be permissions related issues but when i do an ls -la of the directory i get the follow:

drwxr-xr-x 1 secdoc secdoc         230 Jul  9 16:22  Metasploitable2-Linux

The ls -la of the files within the directory is the following:

[secdoc@MAUL: /media/nvme0n1p2/@home/secdoc/Documents/OS_ISO/Metasploitable2-Linux]$ ls -la
total 3761112
drwxr-xr-x 1 secdoc secdoc        230 Jul  9 16:22 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 secdoc secdoc       3050 Jul  9 13:22 ..
-rw------- 1 secdoc secdoc       8684 May 20  2012 Metasploitable.nvram
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root   1925775360 Jul  9 16:22 Metasploitable.qcow2
-rw-r--r-- 1 secdoc secdoc 1925644288 May 20  2012 Metasploitable.vmdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 secdoc secdoc          0 May  7  2010 Metasploitable.vmsd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 secdoc secdoc       2804 May 20  2012 Metasploitable.vmx
-rw-r--r-- 1 secdoc secdoc        269 May  7  2010 Metasploitable.vmxf

and the destination directory I am moving items to is the following:

secdoc@MAUL: /media/nvme0n1p2/@home/secdoc/Documents/OS_ISO/Metasploitable2-Linux]$ ls -la /media/nvme0n1p2/@/var/lib/libvirt/images/
total 458424220
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root         1416 Jul  8 19:46  .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root          108 Apr  5 04:42  ..
-rw------- 1 root root  21478375424 Jul  7 10:23  debian10.qcow2
-rw------- 1 root root  21478375424 Jul  7 10:25  debian11.qcow2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  21419524096 May  6 13:31 'Disco virtual.vmdk'
-rw-r--r-- 1  960  960   8205631488 Jul  7 10:54  DVWA.qcow2
-rw------- 1 root root  85912715264 Jul  4 16:45  EndevourOS-KVM.qcow2
-rw------- 1 root root         8684 May  6 10:56 'Kali 2022 x64 Customized by zSecurity 1.0.9.nvram'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root          734 May  6 10:56 'Kali 2022 x64 Customized by zSecurity 1.0.9.plist'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root            0 May  6 10:56 'Kali 2022 x64 Customized by zSecurity 1.0.9.vmsd'
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root         3824 May  6 10:56 'Kali 2022 x64 Customized by zSecurity 1.0.9.vmx'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root          298 May  6 10:56 'Kali 2022 x64 Customized by zSecurity 1.0.9.vmxf'
drwx------ 1  960  960         2030 May 25 16:03  kali-linux-2022.2
-rw------- 1  960  960  64434798592 Jul  7 10:32  Kali.qcow2
-rw------- 1 root root  64434601984 Jul  7 10:35  LinuxMintDebian.qcow2
-rw------- 1  960  960  64434601984 Jul  7 11:13  MABOX.qcow2
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root          358 Apr 15 18:52  macOS-Simple-KVM
-rw------- 1 root root         8684 Jul  8 19:46  Metasploitable.nvram
-rw-r--r-- 1  960  960   1925644288 Jul  8 19:46  Metasploitable.vmdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root            0 Jul  8 19:46  Metasploitable.vmsd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root         2804 Jul  8 19:46  Metasploitable.vmx
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root          269 Jul  8 19:46  Metasploitable.vmxf
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root          670 Jun 11 23:06  owasp
-rw------- 1 root root  85912715264 Jul  7 11:10  ParrotOS.qcow2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root            0 May  6 10:56  quicklook-cache.png
-rw------- 1 root root  26847870976 Apr 17 09:52  ubuntu20.04.qcow2
-rw------- 1 root root 171825168384 Jul  7 11:51  win10-kvm-template.qcow2
-rw------- 1  960  960 133234163712 Jul  7 21:28  win10-kvm-thrivedx.qcow2
-rw------- 1 root root  48325984256 Jul  7 10:04  Win10.qcow2
-rw------- 1 root root 107390828544 Jun 27 12:20  win11-kvm.qcow2
-rw------- 1  960  960 132456185856 Jul  9 14:54  win11-kvm-template-1-clone.qcow2
-rw------- 1 root root 193303281664 Jul  7 14:48  win11-kvm-template-1.qcow2
-rw------- 1 root root 193303281664 Jun 28 12:36  win11-kvm-template.qcow2
-rw------- 1 root root  85912715264 Jul  7 11:15  win7.qcow2

I am a member of the libvirt group and do not have issue running kvm VMs from the dest directory, so not sure what the issue is outside of the ā€˜@ā€™ in the pathā€¦ and I have tried ā€œā€ with no availā€¦

Any thoughts or direction is appreciatedā€¦

There is a typo here. :wink:

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@dalto always the simple things that I over lookedā€¦

[root@MAUL ~]# cp /media/nvme0n1p2/@home/secdoc/Documents/OS_ISO/Metasploitable2-Linux/Metasploitable.qcow2 /media/nvme0n1p2/@/var/lib/libvirt/images/
[root@MAUL ~]# 

Thank you for pointing out the obviousā€¦feel stupidā€¦

No problem, glad to help.

As a side note, if you donā€™t want that filed owned by root you might want to change the permissions on it.

@dalto i am not concerned by the ownership aspectā€¦I will change ownership once i get all the images movedā€¦just trying to recreate my lab after migrating from Manjaro to EndeavorOSā€¦

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