On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 09:35:59PM +0200, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: > Hello list, > > Is the message below expected when moving a file to an ext2 file system? > > $ doas mount -t ext2fs /dev/sd1i /mnt > $ mv file /mnt > mv: /mnt/file: set flags: Operation not permitted
Yes, if the file has flags set which ext2 doesn't support. See chflags(1) for more details. And use: $ ls -lo on the source files before moving them if you want to see which flags are set to display the file flags before moving more files that might have them set.
