Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/06/29/19:56:34
Thanks for all the info. I ended up executing the following mount
command (without unmounting anything) and it worked:
mount -s -b -c /cygdrive
-Sandeep
John Wiersba wrote:
>Now that I reread my reply, I see the answer. Use mount -b -s /cygdrive
>(note: "-b").
>
>-- John
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: John Wiersba
>>Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 5:40 PM
>>To: 'Sandeep Tamhankar'; John Wiersba
>>Cc: cygwin
>>Subject: RE: Mount issues
>>
>>
>>Sandeep,
>>
>>$ mount -p
>>Prefix Type Flags
>>/ user textmode
>>
>>$ mount
>>d:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
>>d:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
>>d:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
>>c: on /c type user (binmode,noumount) <= note: bin mode
>>
>>$ mount -c /cygdrive
>>$ mount
>>d:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
>>d:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
>>d:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
>>c: on /cygdrive/c type user (textmode,noumount) <= note:
>>now text mode
>>
>>$ mount -c /
>>$ mount
>>d:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
>>d:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
>>d:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
>>c: on /c type user (textmode,noumount) <= note:
>>still text mode
>>
>>What I do to fix this is to:
>> 1) mount -c /something_different
>> 2) mkdir -p /c
>> 3) mount -b c: /c
>> 4) mount -c /
>>
>>I don't know what you can do if your drives keep changing
>>dynamically. It seems to revert to text mounts regardless of
>>the CYGWIN=binmode setting.
>>
>>-- John
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Sandeep Tamhankar [mailto:sandman AT Interwoven DOT com]
>>>Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 5:02 PM
>>>To: John Wiersba
>>>Cc: cygwin
>>>Subject: Re: Mount issues
>>>
>>>
>>>Well, I can't unmount these mount points because Cygwin
>>>
>>automatically
>>
>>>creates these user mounts on login with (textmode, noumount)
>>>settings.
>>>And when I try to add the system mount points without
>>>
>>unmounting the
>>
>>>user mounts, I get the following warning:
>>>
>>>~: mount -s c: /cygdrive/c
>>>mount: warning: system mount point of '/cygdrive/c' will always be
>>>masked by user mount.
>>>
>>>I feel like this needs to be solved in an environment
>>>
>>variable or the
>>
>>>registry. I mean, what makes cygwin automatically mount
>>>
>>these drives
>>
>>>and what makes it use textmode? And why is it that my
>>>
>>user-id mounts
>>
>>>them in binary mode, but all other users get textmode? The only
>>>distinction between me and the other user I've been
>>>expermenting with is
>>>that my username's the one that's done the various Cygwin
>>>installations
>>>over the years.
>>>
>>>And the registry doesn't show these mounts at all. And that
>>>kinda makes
>>>sense because Cygwin wants to auto-mount all the current
>>>drive letters,
>>>and that can change over time. So when I start a Cygwin shell, it
>>>checks which drive letters are around and creates mount points for
>>>them....it just happens to create them in textmode for anyone
>>>except me.
>>>
>>>Any other ideas?
>>>
>>>-Sandeep
>>>
>>>John Wiersba wrote:
>>>
>>>>Use mount -s to remount them. You may need to umount them first.
>>>>
>>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>>From: Sandeep Tamhankar [mailto:sandman AT Interwoven DOT com]
>>>>>Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 2:00 PM
>>>>>To: cygwin
>>>>>Subject: Mount issues
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>When I log into my W2k box and start up a Cygwin 1.3.2-1
>>>>>
>>>shell, I see
>>>
>>>>>that various drives are mapped with binmode. But when I
>>>>>
>>log in as
>>
>>>>>someone else, I see those same drives mounted in text mode. I
>>>>>understand that these are user mounts. How do I set things
>>>>>so that no
>>>>>matter who logs in (either on console or via Cygwin
>>>>>
>>telnet), these
>>
>>>>>mounts are in binmode?
>>>>>
>>>>>I've set my CYGWIN (system) environment variable to
>>>>>
>>binmode and my
>>
>>>>>c:\cygwin\usr\sbin\inetd.exe REG_SZ value in the registry
>>>>>
>>>to "binmode
>>>
>>>>>tty ntsec".
>>>>>
>>>>>TIA.
>>>>>
>>>>>-Sandeep
>>>>>
>>>>>
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