Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: weird behaviour of mv between filesystems | Date | Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:13:11 +0100 | From | Helge Hafting <> |
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> > 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. > Reasonable I think - the ownership information could be valuable, loosing it without warning could be nasty sometimes.
ext2-formatted zipdrives solves this.
Helge Hafting
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