*BSD News Article 39647


Return to BSD News archive

Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!news.clark.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!ns1.nodak.edu!plains.NoDak.edu!ortmann
From: ortmann@plains.NoDak.edu (Daniel Ortmann)
Subject: Re: Dont use mv on DOS fs
Sender: usenet@ns1.nodak.edu (Usenet login)
Message-ID: <D0x728.FM3@ns1.nodak.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1994 20:18:08 GMT
References: <D0r6xD.B76@world.std.com> <3cmbaq$cvb@worak.kaist.ac.kr>
Nntp-Posting-Host: plains.nodak.edu
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network
Lines: 14

In article <3cmbaq$cvb@worak.kaist.ac.kr>,
Minsung Kim <Sdair@abel.kaist.ac.kr> wrote:
>Rob Snow (rsnow@world.std.com) wrote:
>: I hope that this isn't a FAQ.  When I use mv on a mounted DOS fs it hangs 
>: my system. (ie. mv /dos_c_drive/autoexec.bat /dos_c_drive/test.txt)
>
>: Does anyone else have this problem?
>
>Yes, I have the same problem.  When I mount my DOS filesystem on wd0h
>and copy some files from/to the mounted directories, the system almost
...

Ditto for performing a "tar xzvf /mnt/tmp/freebsd/*", where the dos 
partition is mounted on /mnt.  The answer there is to copy the files