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Re: How to remount hotplugged USB drive as noacl (for use with rsync)?


On 2/4/2014 10:27 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
On 2/4/2014 11:09 AM, carolus wrote:
On 2/4/2014 9:10 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> How can one remount a hotplugged NTFS external USB drive as noacl? (I
> take it this is necessary to get sensible Windows permissions when
using
> rsync for backup. If not, please correct me.)
Change the /cygdrive entry in /etc/fstab
Then you'll get normal Windows permissions everywhere, except,
perhaps, the
Cygwin root.

Is this what you mean?

none /cygdrive cygdrive binary,posix=0,user,noacl,override 0 0

Is this a "good thing" to do? I find the following advice from the FAQ
intimidating:

Therefore, the root directory evaluated by Cygwin itself is treated as an
immutable mount point and can't be overridden in /etc/fstab... unless you
think you really know what you're doing. In this case, use the
override flag
in the options field in the /etc/fstab file. Since this is a dangerous
thing
to do, do so at your own risk.

This is talking about the root directory (/) for Cygwin, not the cygdrive
directory.

I'm a bit fuzzy about the distinction and haven't time at the moment to think about it.
Will the line proposed above for /etc/fstab do the right thing?



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