#!/bin/sh # This is just for the record. # This test is not run. exit 0 cat <<\EOF Prior to 5.0.91, ... The problem: On a VFAT file system with coreutils-5.0.90, `mv FOO foo' removes the sole copy of the file named by both the source and destination arguments. Demonstrate the problem, as root: cd /tmp \ && dd if=/dev/zero of=1 bs=8192 count=50 \ && mkdir mnt && mkfs -t vfat 1 \ && mount -oloop 1 mnt && cd mnt \ && printf something important > foo \ && mv foo FOO test -f FOO && echo PASS-1 || echo FAIL-1 ln foo bar mv foo FOO test -f FOO && echo PASS-2 || echo FAIL-2 And in case you actually do the above, you can do this to clean up: cd /tmp && umount /tmp/mnt && rm -r 1 mnt Hey! Can't create hard links on vfat. The above `ln' evokes an `operation not permitted' failure. This demonstrates the same thing with file system type `umsdos' No hard links: cd /tmp \ && dd if=/dev/zero of=1 bs=8192 count=50 \ && mkdir mnt && mkfs -t msdos 1 \ && mount -t umsdos -oloop 1 mnt && cd mnt \ && printf something important > foo \ && mv foo FOO test -f FOO && echo PASS-1 || echo FAIL-1 ln foo bar mv foo FOO test -f FOO && echo PASS-2 || echo FAIL-2 EOF