Andrew Morton wrote: > Francesco Pirozzi <francesco.pirozzi@accent.it> wrote: > > > > Hello everybody, > > > > it happened with my RH73 that the same partition (ext3 fs, of course) was mounted > > onto > > two different mount points ( "/" and "/mnt/removable" respectively) and a copy of > > files > > from one path to another (e.g. "cp /opt/myfile /mnt/removable/opt) reveiled to be > > an overwriting procedure. > > Rather offtopic, but this should have generated an error > > cp: `/opt/myfile' and `/mnt/removable/opt/myfile' are the same file > > It does in 2.5... > > Or maybe you were using something other than `cp'? An alias was set: alias cp="cp -rf" but I also remember that some message has to be expected in this case, even after the alias has been set. A kind of: "error: source and destination files are identical." Am I right? _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
