GNU bug report logs - #11760
[mv] data loss after ctrl-C on ntfs -> ntfs move

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Graham Lawrence <gl00637 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:57:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

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From: Graham Lawrence <gl00637 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: mv
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:52:17 -0700

Slackware 13.37, mv (GNU coreutils) 8.11

On an ntfs file system I had a directory containing almost 9GB of
subdirectories and files.

Started to move entire thing to a different ntfs file system, realized
I should have copied it instead, so Ctrl-C'd the mv.  When I then
tried with cp, I discovered that the source directory is now empty,
about 7GB of data has vanished
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