Hi again, Sorry for not reading the FAQ on the chmod thing ..i was curious cause i have my unix account mounted through windows workstation and it wasn't changing the perms on that nfs partition. As for mv's behaviour, it doesn't look like intentional behaviour to me so I thought i'd post it. Regards, P. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/