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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:42:37 -0500
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On 01/19/2010 04:03 PM, Mike Nistor wrote:
> Just a few minutes ago, I tried to unmount a few mounts I had the
> previous semester. Because I was not able to unmount each specific
> mount I had, I instead ran umount -a, which erased both the /bin and
> /etc entries from the mount table. A few notes: I realize I should not
> be using mount and should rather be using ln. I tried reinstalling
> cygwin to repair the mount table, and that did not work thus far. I
> tried remounting them, but to no avail.
>
> What's happening now, is that when I run cygwin it does not
> autmatically cd me to my user directory, and I had to add to the
> windows path for bash to even see cygcheck, ls, and basics like that.
> I'm attaching cygcheck.out, and if anyone has any idea how to repair
> the mount table from my mistake, please help.

'cygcheck' is not a Cygwin program so there is no need to do anything
special to run it.

Do the following:

mount -s -b e:/cygwin /
mount -s -b e:/bin /usr/bin
mount -s -b e:/lib /usr/lib
mount -s -b -c /cygdrive

That should get you back to the basics.  Of course, the above is from memory
so there might be a typo or two in there.  I don't keep around a 1.5.x 
environment
so I can't easily check the specific syntax.  In the future, you might find 
'mount -m'
helpful.

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