Re: weird behaviour of mv between filesystems

Jan Kara (jack@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Mon, 22 Feb 1999 13:45:33 +0100

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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.
> >
> > 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.
Yes. To prevent this just mount the FAT filesystems with option quiet
(see the mount manual...).

Honza

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