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RE: mount trouble


> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> > --- Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> wrote:
> > [SNIP]
> > mount -f -s -b -X "C:/cygwin/usr/X11R6/bin" "/usr/X11R6/bin"
> > mount -f -s -b -E "C:/cygwin/usr/X11R6/lib" "/usr/X11R6/lib"
> > mount -f -s -b -E "C:/cygwin/usr/X11R6/man" "/usr/X11R6/man"
>
> Couple of comments on this:
>
> * Does the X11 stuff get used so much that this level of fine-grained
> mount options actually makes a big difference? Why not just default the
> lot, and create a single mount point for "/usr/X11R6"?

Sorry, I can't answer that, but I only have one X11R6 dir mounted...

C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system
(binmode)

I don't know why... if I removed this mount it would still be in the
same place.

> * Would it help to add an option to mount to "reset the mounts to
> installation defaults"? At least for the Cygwin installation drive?
>
> That last option would wipe out all mounts for directories under the
> Cygwin installation directory, and create a clean set of mounts as the
> installer would have done. It would be invaluable for cleaning up from
> botched mount experiments..

AFAIK there's no ability within Cygwin to _write_ to the registry
(read was added a little while ago), so it would need to be another
application.  I'm also unsure as to where it would find out where it
it'self was installed, in my case c:\cygwin, unless it used it's own
path and assumed it was in /bin.

Other than that - good idea :)

J.


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