Re: setup drops mount?

["Trevor Forbes" <t4bs at hotmail dot com>]

All I do is "simply" maintain a brain dead .bat file as follows:


cd f:\cygwin\bin

umount --remove-all-mounts

mount -f -b -s f:/Cygwin /
mount -f -b -s -x f:/Cygwin/bin /bin
mount -f -b -s -x f:/Cygwin/bin /usr/bin
mount -f -b -s f:/Cygwin/lib /usr/lib
mount -f -b -s g:/cvs /cvs
mount -f -b -s e:/src /src

mount -b -s --change-cygdrive-prefix /
mount -b --change-cygdrive-prefix /


Trevor


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sprenger, Karel" <Karel.Sprenger@Compaq.com>
To: "'DJ Delorie'" <dj@delorie.com>
Cc: <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 15 November 2000 5:57
Subject: RE: setup drops mount?


> Hi,
>
> On Tuesday, November 14, 2000 17:44 DJ Delorie [mailto:dj@delorie.com]
> wrote:
> >
> > > That is all very well and fine, but it would be nice of setup to
> > > restore my /var mount when it is done.
> >
> > The problem is that some packages might put files in /var.  If I
> > restored your mount, those files would be inaccessible to cygwin
> > programs.
> >
>
> You're right: restoring mounts would lead to trouble.  But what would
happen
> if setup would honor my /var mount instead of reverting back to the var
> subdirectory in the cygwin root?  Or any other mounts for that matter.
> That's the nice thing about mounts, isn't it?  That way, the user decides
> where things are going to be put.  For eaxample, if my C: drive is filled
up
> near capacity, I might want to move the /usr/local tree to drive D: and
> adjust the mount table.  Then I would also want new stuff to be placed
> according to that mount and not in the old place.
>
> > > I mean, who's the boss around here?
> >
> > If you use setup, setup is the boss.  Feel free to "tar xvfz" your own
> > packages if you don't like the way setup sets up cygwin.
> >
>
> I didn't mean to flame on setup (or its author).  I think setup is a great
> tool, but it would be even greater if it would use any existing mounts or
at
> least inform the user when it decides to ignore them.
>
> Please let me know if I can be of any assistance in this.
>
> Cheers,
> Karel
>
> --Karel Sprenger, senior solution specialist
> COMPAQ, Professional Services
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