Hi there, it's now a vfat fs plugged into a 9.10 system: ii coreutils 7.4-2ubuntu1 The GNU core utilities
$ ls -l /media/USB/ -rwxr-xr-x 1 test.txt1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 test.txt2 $ cp /media/USB/test.txt1 . $ ls -l -rwxr-xr-x 1 test.txt1 $ cp --no-preserve=mode /media/USB/test.file2 . $ ls -l -rwxr-xr-x 1 test.txt1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 test.txt2 With --no-preserve I'd expect the new file to have the same permissions as a newly created file (umask dependent) but this is not the case. -- cp preserves mode with --no-preserve=mode https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/379233 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs