Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 10:07:57 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shell or mv eats a period? Message-ID: <1465920477.1188.142.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20160614153805.GB50221@www.zefox.net> References: <20160614153805.GB50221@www.zefox.net>
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On Tue, 2016-06-14 at 08:38 -0700, bob prohaska wrote: > During a recent update of freebsd-arm on an rpi2 I happened to type > root@ns1:/boot/msdos # ls > bootcode.bin fixup_cd.dat readme start_c > d.elf ubldr > config.txt fixup_x.dat rpi2.dtb start_x.elf > fixup.dat licence.bro start.elf u-boot.bin > > To prepare for upgrading from r494499, I then typed > > root@ns1:/boot/msdos # mv rpi2.dtb rpi2.dtb.old > > root@ns1:/boot/msdos # ls > bootcode.bin fixup_cd.dat readme start_c > d.elf ubldr > config.txt fixup_x.dat rpi2dtb.old start_x.elf > fixup.dat licence.bro start.elf u-boot.bin > > Note that the renamed file has lost the first dot. Next, the new file > was copied into position: > > root@ns1:/boot/msdos # cp /boot/dtb/rpi2.dtb /boot/msdos > root@ns1:/boot/msdos # ls > bootcode.bin fixup_cd.dat readme start.e > lf u-boot.bin > config.txt fixup_x.dat rpi2.dtb start_cd.elf > ubldr > fixup.dat licence.bro rpi2dtb.old start_x.elf > root@ns1:/boot/msdos # > > It's happened twice so far, so it's unlikely to be a wetware error 8 > -) > Can anybody tell me what happened? > > thanks for reading, > > bob prohaska A FAT filesystem enforces that there is only a single dot in a filename. Welcome to 1983. -- Ian
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