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

From: Assaf Gordon <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2018 15:22:49 -0600

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