Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Problem with CDROM copying or VFAT | Date | Sun, 11 Oct 1998 16:37:47 EDT | From | Kev <> |
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> >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. -- Kevin L. Mitchell <klmitch@mit.edu> ------------------------- -. .---- --.. ..- -..- -------------------------- http://web.mit.edu/klmitch/www/ (PGP5 keys availiable from here) DSS Key ID ED0DB34E: D9BF 0E74 FDCB 43F5 C597 878F 9455 EC24 ED0D B34E DH Key ID 2A2C31D4: 1A77 4BA5 9E32 14AE 87DA 9FEC 7106 FC62 2A2C 31D4
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