Hi,

as I'm currently moving around some media files which belong onto a VFAT partition, I am very much annoyed by mv's error messages telling me it was unable to preserve permissions for these files. I know that, and all files on that partition are non-critical, so I'd like to disable these error messages; after all, they almost made me miss some more crucial ones.

Well, that's what 'quiet' mount is for, but mount already says:

/dev/sda4 on /mnt/share type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,quiet,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=000,check=r)

So, quiet is set, and Im still getting these errors. Does anybody know why? I could, of course, tell mv not to preserve them, but as I'm doing the moving through the GUI, that'd have an effect on moving files whose permissions count as well.

Thanks,
V

Anytime I move a large sections of data I use rsync. It has many options including quite mode and remote tunneling using ssh.

man rsync -- for more info.

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/09/...mand-examples/

-- This article shows some good examples of usage.

Yes, for crucial data or really large files I tend to use rsync as well. But what I'm doing right now is just sorting my files, as my home directory has become clogged over time, and if you have to select groups of files (like, some images go there, some there, those go in the bin...) it's tireing to use the CLI - and unfortunately, rox doesn't support changing the 'move' command >.<