Re: weird behaviour of mv between filesystems

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
22 Feb 1999 15:10:33 GMT

Followup to: <199902221434.BAA18035@zipper.zip.com.au>
By author: CaT <cat@zip.com.au>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > Reasonable I think - the ownership information could be
> > valuable, loosing it without warning could be nasty sometimes.
>
> Aye. Wish there was a flag that one could use that said something
> along the lines of "cease caring about things that cannot be set on
> a particular filesystem" and just do it.
>

Mount the (V)FAT filesystem with the "quiet" option.

-hpa

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