fish -N option unconditionally overwrites test*.img files.

This is more convenient and makes it consistent with the
'alloc' and 'sparse' commands.

diff --git a/fish/guestfish.pod b/fish/guestfish.pod
index cc974d7..7260caf 100644 (file)
--- a/fish/guestfish.pod
+++ b/fish/guestfish.pod
@@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ multiple times (and can be mixed with I<-a>).
 
 The new disk is called C<test1.img> for the first I<-N>, C<test2.img>
 for the second and so on.  Existing files in the current directory are
-not overwritten, so you may need to do C<rm -f test1.img>.
+I<overwritten>.
 
 The type briefly describes how the disk should be sized, partitioned,
 how filesystem(s) should be created, and how content should be added.

diff --git a/fish/prep.c b/fish/prep.c
index ab5b4bc..6fd1d6b 100644 (file)
--- a/fish/prep.c
+++ b/fish/prep.c
@@ -156,12 +156,6 @@ struct prep_data {
 prep_data *
 create_prepared_file (const char *type_string, const char *filename)
 {
-  if (access (filename, F_OK) == 0) {
-    fprintf (stderr, _("guestfish: file '%s' exists and the '-N' option will not overwrite it\n"),
-             filename);
-    exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
-  }
-
   prep_data *data = parse_type_string (type_string);
   if (data->prep->prelaunch)
     data->prep->prelaunch (filename, data);