Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/10/31/13:09:24
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
> Either Cygwin or I be confused. (I'm betting on "I". ;-))
Bingo.
> I have deleted '/tmp' ('d:/Cygwin/tmp' -- using Explorer)
> and issued: 'umount /tmp' and 'mount 'e:\tmp /tmp' repeatedly.
^^^^^^^^^^
Umm, why? Once should have been enough.
> All the other mounts to '/' appear in an 'ls' of '/',
> but '/tmp' ('e:/tmp'), does not.
What other mounts to "/"? "/" itself is a mount, but under it everything
should be either a real or virtual (/proc, /dev) directory.
> While the apps seem to find 'e:/tmp', should I be worried?
No. Mounts can be associated with non-existing directories, and will work
just fine. If you want tab completion, you can simply "mkdir
/cygdrive/d/Cygwin/tmp" -- it will then show up in "ls /" and allow tab
completion, e.g., "/tm[Tab]". BTW, unless you repeat this trick with
/proc and /dev, they won't show up in "ls /" either.
> Prior to my doing any of the above (w/ Cygwin root at
> 'c:/_Programs/Cygwin'), I've had recurring instances of something
> (apps?, 'setup.exe?, what?) creating 'tmp' and more frequently 'var' on
> both my 'c:' and 'e:' drives. This problem seems to have subsided since
> I moved the Cygwin root directory from 'c:/_Programs/Cygwin' to
> D:/Cygwin'.
I'd bet you were installing as one user and running as another.
> Also, after I moved Cygwin, despite changing all the references in the
> profile and Windows environment variables, *and* reinstalling the whole
> of Cygwin, "Cygwin" "insisted" on looking at the C/_Programs... : root
> rather than the D:/Cygwin... directory
>
> Anybody know what's causing this?
Stale user mounts? Your "/", "/usr/bin" and "/usr/lib" mounts appear to
be user mounts. You should probably remount them as "system" (i.e.,
'mount -f -s -b d:/Cygwin /', 'mount -f -s -b d:/Cygwin/bin /usr/bin',
'mount -f -s -b d:/Cygwin/lib /usr/lib', and 'umount -U').
Also, your system cygdrive prefix is marked "textmode"; you should change
it to "binmode" to avoid spurious errors (by 'mount -s -b -c /'). It's
not very safe to have it set to '/' anyway...
> Note that at the end of the attached 'cycheck -shv', there is
> the following error message:
>
> cygcheck: dump_sysinfo: GetVolumeInformation() failed: 1
>
> which seems to be coincidental when it checks the 'a:/' floppy drive.
This is expected.
> Thanks,
> Lee
Oh, and another small thing:
cls = `() { cmd /c cls
}'
Why not install the "clear" package and 'function cls() { clear }'? ;-)
Igor
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