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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!nntp.uio.no!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!IN-Berlin.DE!fub!mind.de!nostromo.in-berlin.de!ripley From: ripley@nostromo.in-berlin.de (H. Eckert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: mv filename: set owner/group: Operation not permitted Date: 25 Mar 1997 10:22:32 GMT Organization: Private access site (FreeBSD 2.1-R), Berlin, Germany, Europe Lines: 31 Message-ID: <slrn5jf9r8.4jl.ripley@nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de> References: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970323163337.10686A-100000@typhoon.typhoon.co.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.8.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37718 nfung@typhoon.co.jp (N Fung): > Whenever I 'mv' a file from one file system to another, I get this > error/warning message: > > mv: /target/filesystem/filename: set owner/group: Operation not permitted > > The file is moved successfully though. mv'ing files within the same file > system doesn't producing any such message. This is most certainly the case when you move files from /tmp to your home-directory. I get this message too and it is completely safe to ignore it. This happens because the files in /tmp inherit the group "bin" of which I'm not really a member. So the mv command tries to recover the group-setting on the destination file after it copied the data (which is necessary when moving data across different file systems) but fails. You don't get the message when moving on a single file system because in this case no data is copied at all. Instead a new directory entry is created that points to the same inode and the old one is unlinked. The group is stored inside the inode so it is not lost... Greetings, Ripley -- H. Eckert, 10777 Berlin, Germany ISO 8859-1: Ä=Ae, Ö=Oe, Ü=Ue, ä=ae, ö=oe, ü=ue, ß=sz. "(Technobabbel)" (Jetrel) - "Müssen wir uns diesen Schwachsinn wirklich anhören?" (Neelix)