[Gllug] strange cp error

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Wed Jun 6 18:51:52 UTC 2007


On 6 Jun 2007, Pete Ryland spake thusly:
> On 06/06/07, salsaman at xs4all.nl <salsaman at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> No, I am doing this as root. I get the same error even if the target
>> doesn`t exist, and also with -f.
>>
>> But I just read something about Mandriva turning on xattr (extended
>> attributes) by default.
>
> Are you copying to a VFAT filesystem?

If /usr/bin is VFAT he's got bigger troubles!

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