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Date:	Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:04:41 +0200
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Subject:	Re: /bin and /lib mount points occasionally lost
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On 6/13/2012 9:47 PM, richw wrote:
>
>
> Christopher Faylor-8 wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:19:42AM -0700, richw wrote:
>>> I occasionally find that cygwin is broken, and I find that /usr/bin and
>>> /usr/lib no longer are useful.  The mount command (for which I need to
>>> type /bin/mount) shows nothing mounted there.  I type the following two
>>> commands:
>>> mount c:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin
>>> mount c:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib
>>> and things work (through reboots) for a while, and then break again.
>>> Any hints how I can keep this from happening, or what might cause it?
>>
>> One big hint:
>> http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>>

>>
>>
> Sometimes I'm not good at interpreting hints. Let's see - Google didn't find
> me anything. The FAQ doesn't seem to help. So I think the hint is telling me
> to include cygcheck output, which I will now do.
> http://old.nabble.com/file/p34007924/cygcheck.out cygcheck.out
>
> By the way, the response to the mount command now looks like
>
> rw AT seven ~
> $ mount
> C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,user)
> C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,user)
> C:/cygwin on / type ntfs (binary,auto)
> C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> D: on /cygdrive/d type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
>
> rw AT seven ~
> $
>
> I note that another cygwin installation has (binary,auto) instead of
> (binary,user) for the two mounts in question.
>

look on difference between "/etc/fstab"
see
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table

Regards
Marco

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