Cygwin mv and cp fail: skipping file 'file', as it was replaced while being copied

Cygwin mv and cp fail: skipping file 'file', as it was replaced while being copied

[Kenneth Wolcott]

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

$ cp new_Perforce_account_request.txt ~/.
cp: skipping file 'new_Perforce_account_request.txt', as it was
replaced while being copied

What's up with this?

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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Re: Cygwin mv and cp fail: skipping file 'file', as it was replaced while being copied

[Eric Blake]

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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.

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Re: Cygwin mv and cp fail: skipping file 'file', as it was replaced while being copied

[Kenneth Wolcott]

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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