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Re: Cygwin mv and cp fail: skipping file 'file', as it was replaced while being copied
- From: Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 12:01:01 -0700
- Subject: Re: Cygwin mv and cp fail: skipping file 'file', as it was replaced while being copied
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- References: <CADex0xxjBV0mwARirriUt9oSfBdSucsQRRXVsxfyH6_x1jf+DQ at mail dot gmail dot com> <570D4438 dot 8020103 at redhat dot com>
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 04/12/2016 12:13 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
>> Hi;
>>
>> Cygwin mv and cp fail: skipping file 'file', as it was replaced
>> while being copied
>>
>> $ uname -a
>> CYGWIN_NT-6.1 KWOLCOTT-9010 2.5.0(0.297/5/3) 2016-04-11 09:58 x86_64 Cygwin
>>
>> $ mv new_Perforce_account_request.txt ~/.
>> mv: skipping file 'new_Perforce_account_request.txt', as it was
>> replaced while being copied
>>
>> $ pwd
>> /cygdrive/p/Engineering/EOSS_Tableau/SFDC
>
> That's often the case of a drive that has unstable inode numbers. What
> does /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo /cygdrive/p/Engineering/EOSS_Tableau/SFDC
> say about your drive? It may be some buggy file system that cygwin needs
> to learn how to work around.
>
$ /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo /cygdrive/p/Engineering/EOSS_Tableau/SFDC
Device Type : 7
Characteristics : 10
Volume Name : <Vol_O>
Serial Number : 2684354572
Max Filenamelength : 255
Filesystemname : <NTFS>
Flags : 4004e
FILE_CASE_SENSITIVE_SEARCH : FALSE
FILE_CASE_PRESERVED_NAMES : TRUE
FILE_UNICODE_ON_DISK : TRUE
FILE_PERSISTENT_ACLS : TRUE
FILE_FILE_COMPRESSION : FALSE
FILE_VOLUME_QUOTAS : FALSE
FILE_SUPPORTS_SPARSE_FILES : TRUE
FILE_SUPPORTS_REPARSE_POINTS: FALSE
FILE_SUPPORTS_REMOTE_STORAGE: FALSE
FILE_VOLUME_IS_COMPRESSED : FALSE
FILE_SUPPORTS_OBJECT_IDS : FALSE
FILE_SUPPORTS_ENCRYPTION : FALSE
FILE_NAMED_STREAMS : TRUE
FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME : FALSE
FILE_SEQUENTIAL_WRITE_ONCE : FALSE
FILE_SUPPORTS_TRANSACTIONS : FALSE
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