Re: [MiNT] mv does delete when fail of fat (was: 1-18-cur trunk stability issues)

[Mark Duckworth <mduckworth@atari-source.org>]

I had a backup so that is no big deal.  I did do an fs check after this happened and there were no errors suggesting that nothing untoward happened.  I think what happened is that it passed some sanity check internal to the mv program since they were different filenames and then fat truncated the dest filename which caused an error.  The issue is whether or not this is fully correct or is a situation which should be handled.  I imagine there are a few data loss scenarios that could play out moving data from ext2 or vfat to fat 8.3 filesystems.

Thanks,
Mark


On Nov 29, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Paul Wratt wrote:

> I suggest:
> 1) do some tests (with dummy files of coarse)
> 2) check drive with "undelete tool" as it may still be there
> 3) confirm on another machine/distro (Gentoo) (someone else maybe?)
> 
> If you can verify it deletes on fail on other partition type, that
> would be bonus
> 
> That will at least isolate the issue (it may just be the mint fat driver)