[Gllug] strange cp error

Craig Millar gllug at craigmillar.org
Wed Jun 6 09:43:17 UTC 2007


On 06/06/07 09:49 +0200, salsaman at xs4all.nl wrote:
> But I just read something about Mandriva turning on xattr (extended
> attributes) by default.
> 
> See:
> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.os.linux.mandriva/browse_thread/thread/490cf85b3212be09/6aa1d3ffb3963208?lnk=raot

This sounds plausible - I had a similar situation when I tried to backup some
files from my xattr mounted home partition to another drive mounted sans
xattr. What happens if you remount /usr with xattr enabled?
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