Gary Oberbrunner sent the following at Wednesday, October 17, 2012 2:22 PM
>I understand about not installing cygwin in c:\. But I really want a
>single filesystem, so cygwin's / is Windows c:/, and cygwin /Program\
>Files is Windows /Program Files and so on. I have an environment with
>lots of non-cygwin tools and translating paths between them is not
>workable.
>
>I'm not really doing cygwin-based software development (not using gcc
>etc.); I just want cygwin for its utilities, so "ls /Windows" works the
>same as "dir \Windows".
>
>For years I've done this by installing cygwin into c:\cygwin, and
>adjusting the /etc/fstab mount points so everything works. My fstab
>looks like this:
>
>c:/ / ntfs binary,override
>c:/cygwin/etc /etc ntfs binary,override
>c:/cygwin/usr /usr ntfs binary,override
>c:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin ntfs binary,override
>c:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib ntfs binary,override
>c:/cygwin/var /var ntfs binary,override
>c:/cygwin/dev /dev ntfs binary,override
>c:/cygwin/lib /lib ntfs binary,override
>c:/cygwin/proc /proc ntfs binary,override
>c:/cygwin/srv /srv ntfs binary,override
>
>But as I'm installing a new machine with a fresh cygwin, this no longer
>works. The mounts in fstab don't take effect (though interestingly c:/
>-> / does work), and it then can't find /etc and many things then don't
>work.
>
>I can manually mount it from a bash shell, but putting it in fstab
>doesn't work as it used to.
>
>Is this still a plausible setup for 1.7? Is there a better way?
Yes. Sort of. Not ~exactly~ the same thing.
The cygdrive prefix gives you a "single filesystem". To save typing,
you could change the cygdrive prefix to /.
In /etc/fstab:
none / cygdrive binary 0 0
(and get rid of all the other C:/cygwin/ lines in fstab.)
Then C:\Windows becomes /c/Windows and "C:\Program Files" becomes
/c/Program\ Files. I, too, have a lot of non-cygwin tools/files;
I find that prefixing paths with "/c" is not inconvenient.
Another thing that you could do is to set up bash functions with cygstart
if it is a GUI, posix paths to your windows apps, and cygpath to convert any
posix paths given as arguments to Windows paths. Something like this
(untested):
function name ( ) { cygstart /path/program args "$(cygpath -w "$1")" }
Good luck,
- Barry
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