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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 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. BIG NOTE -- in case people didn't know about this, but with Cygwin64, all of the cygwin tools can be run in Windows(x64)' repair console. This was not true for cygwin32 as it required a separate subsystem. But this allows for all the power of the *nix utils/env when repairing/restoring a windows system. A HUGE upgrade in features & flexibility. -- 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
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