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mv: deletes src file on error

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From: Chris Elvidge <celvidge001 <at> gmail.com>
To: Frank Busse <f.busse <at> imperial.ac.uk>, 52122 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52122: mv: deletes src file on error
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2021 12:05:21 +0000

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

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