[Wylug-help] cp backup problem

[Shaun Laughey]

On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 11:57 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 Jul 2007, Shaun Laughey wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 10:14 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > I'm having problems with the following:
> > >
> > > cp /home/anne/Backups/std.vcf /Data/Backup/std_1.vcf
> > > cp /home/anne/Backups/std_1.vcf /Data/Backup/std_2.vcf
> > > cp /home/anne/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf /Data/Backup/
> > >
> > > which gives rise to
> > >
> > > cp: setting attributes for `/Data/Backup/std_1.vcf': Operation not
> > > supported cp: setting attributes for `/Data/Backup/std_2.vcf': Operation
> > > not supported cp: setting attributes for `/Data/Backup/std.vcf':
> > > Operation not supported
> > >
> > > /Data is on a separate partition:
> > >
> > > drwxrwxr-t  37 anne users  2048 Jul 15 17:43 Data/
> > >
> > > What is this attribute problem?  I used to run an almost identical
> > > script, but that was within my home directory.  All the same, it feels
> > > like permissions, but I can't see why.
> > >
> > > Anne
> >
> > Hiya Anne,
> >
> > How are you mounting /Data?
> > What format is it? EXT3/XFS? FAT32?
> >
> > Windows formats FAT32, NTFS don't support linux permissions and use
> > their own weirdness for that. I get that error copying to my MP3 player
> > which is FAT based.
> >
> > Many distros prevent setuid and other properties on removable drives
> > even if they are using xfs, ext3.
> >
> It's a hard drive partition.
> 
> > Perhaps you have got a security limit set in the fstab (/etc/fstab).
> >
> /dev/hda7 /Data ext3 defaults 1 2
> 
> I did wonder about the 't' flag, but I own the files to move, the directory to 
> move them to, and the relevant files in the destination, and I'm running the 
> script as me, so it shouldn't have been a problem, I think.  OTOH, I can't 
> remember where I got the info about this, so I can't check it.

Ahh you could probably have extended attributes enabled on your home
drive and not on /Data.

http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/view/rpms/Application/attr
http://beagle-project.org/Enabling_Extended_Attributes

Most likely beagle is using it as per above.


Shaun.