Re: [coLinux-users] mv deletes entire folder with contents without asking

[Sam M. <pa...@gm...>]

You've got to remember that cofs is backed onto the NTFS file system
which whilst being case preserving is by default not case sensitive on
Windows even though it can be (much fun). What has more than likely
happened that somewhere in one of the calls, Windows has behaved
strangely and ended up nuking the file. You can do weird stuff by
replicating this on Windows where you open a lower case file and cat
to one that isn't however it goes back to the same place.

In effect the command is telling it to move to the same location,
consider the following from the Windows command line:
C:\WINDOWS\Temp>mkdir pie
C:\WINDOWS\Temp>cd pie
C:\WINDOWS\Temp\pie>mkdir TestDir
C:\WINDOWS\Temp\pie>move TestDir testdir
The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.


Its an interesting case of case sensitivities that I guess COFS should
handle better, however try enabling case sensitivity in Windows and
see if this makes a difference. I'm not entirely sure how you do this,
but Google should know the answer.

Sam Moffatt
http://pasamio.id.au



On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 2:14 AM, Tobbe Lundberg <tob...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm running coLinux 20081217 and have C:\ mounted as /mnt/windows using cofs.
>
> Let's say I'm in /mnt/windows/someDir. This is the output of ls -lR
>
> tobbe@debian:/mnt/windows/someDir$ ls -lR
> .:
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 1 tobbe tobbe 0 Dec 24 10:57 TestTest
>
> ./TestTest:
> total 0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 tobbe tobbe 0 Dec 24 10:57 file1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 tobbe tobbe 0 Dec 24 10:57 file2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 tobbe tobbe 0 Dec 24 10:57 file3
>
> now I do 'mv TestTest testtest'
>
> Doing ls -lR again gives me this:
>
> tobbe@debian:/mnt/windows/someDir$ ls -lR
> .:
> total 0
>
> Where did my files and folder go?
>
> //Tobbe
>
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