Re: weird behaviour of mv between filesystems
Helge Hafting (helge.hafting@c2i.net)
Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:13:11 +0100
> > 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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