Re: weird behaviour of mv between filesystems

Kurt Garloff (K.Garloff@ping.de)
Sat, 20 Feb 1999 10:56:16 +0100


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On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 09:53:22PM +1300, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 04:27:50PM +1100, CaT wrote:
>=20
> > Is this a problem with something weird in the filesystems themselves or
> > is there something plain wrong with mv?
>=20
> Neither -- mv invoked to move data between files systems copies from
> source to dest. then chown's and chmods the destination to match the
> source.
>=20
> I would guess your destination is FAT which doesn't support the
> above... so the warnings are more or less harmless.

=2E.. and result in the original files not being deleted.

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Kurt Garloff <kurt@garloff.de> [Dortmund, FRG]
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