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

[carolus]

On 2/4/2014 10:50 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
> No need for override. This is how I have it set (I prefer just /<drive_letter>
> over/cygdrive/<...>):
>
> none    /       cygdrive        binary,posix=0,noacl    0       0
>

Thanks.  I've done that.  Presumably it solves my problem, though I 
haven't yet tried an external backup. Nothing seems changed as viewed 
from within Cygwin, and ssh still works.

> You're not remounting the Cygwin root.

I'm confused by this statement. Isn't /cygdrive/c/cygwin/ the same as 
Cygwin root?  Won't it inherit the noacl property?


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