### Please describe the problem. Ideally annex should detect all "paranormal" cases such as running on NFS mounted partition, but according to [https://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/huge_multiple_copies_of___39__.nfs__42____39___and___39__.panfs__42____39___being_created/](https://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/huge_multiple_copies_of___39__.nfs__42____39___and___39__.panfs__42____39___being_created/). Happily ignorant we were running annex (5.20151116-g76139a9) on NFS mounted partition until we filled up 2TB of allocated to us space with .nfs* files. Well -- apparently according to above we should have tried pidlock... trying now but doesn't work :-/ [[!format sh """ *$> git clone smaug:/tmp/123 123-clone && cd 123-clone && git config annex.pidlock true && echo 124 > 124.dat && git annex add 124.dat && git commit -m 'added 124' && git annex move --to=origin 124.dat Initialized empty Git repository in /home/yhalchen/123-clone/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 22, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (16/16), done. remote: Total 22 (delta 3), reused 0 (delta 0) Receiving objects: 100% (22/22), done. Resolving deltas: 100% (3/3), done. total 1 1 123.dat@ 1 README.txt (merging origin/git-annex into git-annex...) (recording state in git...) add 124.dat ok (recording state in git...) [master 0f1092a] added 124 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 120000 124.dat move 124.dat (checking origin...) git-annex: content is locked $> echo $? 1 """]] BTW running move in our old now somewhat screwed up annex, results in a differently expressed error: [http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/2016-02-29.png](http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/2016-02-29.png) [[!meta author=yoh]]