Re: weird behaviour of mv between filesystems

Chris Wedgwood (cw@ix.net.nz)
Sat, 20 Feb 1999 21:53:22 +1300


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.

-cw

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