Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Oct 1998 06:42:53 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | Re: Problem with CDROM copying or VFAT. |
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On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Gordon Chaffee wrote:
>> I copied the MS Publisher 97 CDROM onto my FAT32 drive in Windows >> 95. >> >> Once in Linux, I needed to make up some space on the FAT32 drive >> for archiving stuff temporarily. I went to move the MSPub tree >> to a dir on ext2 drive, and it hung at a certain point every time >> I tried to move it. The only solution I could find was to tar >> the dir in WIndows, and then move it in Linux. > >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:
1 root@red:~# mount /dev/hda6 on / type ext2 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) /dev/hda2 on /stuff type ext2 (rw,noatime) /dev/hda1 on /fat32 type vfat (rw) /dev/hdb1 on /dos/c type msdos (rw,umask=027)
1 root@red:~# pwd /root
1 root@red:~# mv serial.html /fat32/ serial.html -> /fat32/serial.html
1 root@red:~# ls serial.html /bin/ls: serial.html: No such file or directory
1 root@red:~# mv /fat32/serial.html . /fat32/serial.html -> ./serial.html
1 root@red:~# ls serial.html serial.html
So, as you can see, I just moved a file from my ext2 partition to my fat32 partition and back. Works like a charm.
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.
-- Mike A. Harris - Computer Consultant - Linux advocate
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