bug#14852: Fwd: mv fails when trying to overwrite a file in a (map) network drive

[Assaf Gordon]

tags 14852 notabug
close 14852
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 23/07/13 10:21 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
> Lluis faixó wrote:
> > [...]
> > It complains:
> >
> > mv: cannot move `file1' to `file2': File exists

>         1) Are the 2 files on the same drive?
>         2) Are one or both on a remote system (sounds like the target it
> but just being sure)
>         3) What OS running on the fileserver that you are copying to?  Windows
> or *nix?
[....]
> But if cp can't remove the file (like it used to being able to do on an *nix
> based machine,
> then from it's perspective, it can't copy into the new file because it already
> exists.

With no further follow-ups in 5 years, I'm closing this bug.

-assaf