ACL and moving files in Nautilus

Question

When I move files from a private home directory (e.g. /home/jack) to a shared directory (e.g. /home/shared-school) Nautilus copies the file permissions from the original file into the shared directory - and ignores the ACL that I've put in the /home/shared-school directory (e.g. setfacl -R -m d:g:school:rwx /home/shared-school).

Is it possible to force Nautilus to change ACL on a file that is moved or copied - or not to ignore the ACL on the directory where the files are moved or copied?

Answer 1

Keep in mind that when you move a file to a location within the same file, the inodes get modified to reflect the new location. The contents of the file do not actually get moved. Contrast this with moving a file to a new location. In that situation, the mv command must use new inodes, copy the data, then clean up the old file system.