On 26/11/2021 11:07 am, Frank Busse wrote:
Hi, Given two files: an old version of "foo" on a mounted USB stick: /mnt/dst/foo and a new version of "foo" in /src/foo on the system's hard drive. When I do: sudo mv /src/foo /mnt/dst/foo I get the following error: mv: failed to preserve ownership for '/mnt/dst/foo': Operation not permitted
Is your USB stick (V)FAT(32) (or similar) formatted?
The error is fine but mv deletes /src/foo and keeps mnt/dst/foo, meaning that the data of the new file is lost. Is this the intended behaviour? I'm using Coreutils 9.0.
Didn't reproduce this (as root). mv (GNU coreutils) 8.32.179-c7577
Kind regards, Frank
-- Chris Elvidge
