Re: Problem with CDROM copying or VFAT

Kev (klmitch@mit.edu)
Sun, 11 Oct 1998 16:37:47 EDT

> >What do you mean by 'move'? A move across filesystems can't succeed.
> >Were you trying to tar it up and untar it in Linux and that was failing?
>
> Moves across filesystems do work. Let me illustrate:

No, they don't; rename() cannot work across filesystem boundaries. I have
noticed that GNU mv will fall back on copying the file if it is unable to
move it.

> However, I was using Midnight commander to do the move at first,
> and it failed. I tried a few X filemanagers too and they failed
> at the same point, so I think it is an FAT32 driver bug.

Nope, this is expected behavior; they fail because rename() fails, and they
don't try to fall back to copying the file, like GNU mv does.

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