From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: lostbits <aschwarz1309@att.net>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Can I eliminate diagnostic messages from cp
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 18:05:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1528478334.20160520205030@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e817f56-2193-6a63-ec27-1f49dc2b2e00@att.net>
Greetings, lostbits!
> I use cp as my backup tool from disk to USB. There are maybe 40,000
> files involved and each one has a message of
> "cp: preserving permissions for <file>’: Not supported". These messages
> slow down the backup and obscure meaningful faults. Is there any option
> for removing the messages?
> My command line is: cp <directory> /<usb>
If your USB is formatted in FAT, then --preserve=none will get rid of these
messages.
As FAT doesn't really support anything at all.
--
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, May 20, 2016 20:49:46
Sorry for my terrible english...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-20 18:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-20 17:45 lostbits
2016-05-20 17:48 ` Eliot Moss
2016-05-20 18:05 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2016-05-22 7:09 ` Brian Inglis
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