On 3/11/2017 7:03 PM, L A Walsh wrote: > cyg Simple wrote: >> On 3/10/2017 4:01 PM, L A Walsh wrote: >> >>> I want to be able to mount other areas of other file >>> systems onto directories. Symlinks are destroyed by Cygwin's >>> SETUP.EXE and the install process For example. I have >>> a smallish "/usr" partition, but a large "/Users" partition. >>> "/usr/share" grew to hold more and more data over time, and >>> currently is using 16G, all by itself. My "/usr" partition is >>> 15GB with 4.7GB free, 11G used. So I needed to split >>> "/usr/share" off to somewhere else. I don't have room for another >>> drive, but I do have room on "/Users". So tell me, >>> why shouldn't I be able to create "/Users/share" and mount >>> "/Users/share" at "/usr/share"? >>> >>> >> >> Linda, I'm not trying to reject what you're saying which I find very >> sound. But for this scenario why not just use an entry in /etc/fstab >> similar to the below example? >> > ---- > I want my filesystem views between Windows and Cygwin to be > the same, as they, for the most part, are as I have: > >> mount -p > Prefix Type Flags > / user binmode >
Just as I do. > So in cygwin /m/foo == M:\foo in windows and > //server/pathname in cygwin == \\server\pathname in Windows. > > I use cygwin to manage my windows installation to some degree. > Sure, why not. What you're trying to do though can be done with manual entries in the /etc/fstab. You're issue as I've heard it is with setup-*.exe and how it manages those junctions as symlinks and somehow manages to mess up the junction because it replaces it with a Cygwin style symlink. Setup-*.exe is a Windows application but uses some of Cygwin functions to help it and executes the postinstall files using a Cygwin shell. -- cyg Simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
