Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Feb 1999 10:56:16 +0100 | From | Kurt Garloff <> | Subject | Re: weird behaviour of mv between filesystems |
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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: > > > Is this a problem with something weird in the filesystems themselves or > > is there something plain wrong with mv? > > 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. > > I would guess your destination is FAT which doesn't support the > above... so the warnings are more or less harmless.
... and result in the original files not being deleted.
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