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Date:	Sat, 11 Mar 2017 16:03:43 -0800
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Subject:	Re: Junctions != Symlinks; Treat Junctions as MS-FS mounts; MS-symlinks are symlinks
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cyg Simple wrote:
> On 3/10/2017 4:01 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
>   
>>    I want to be able to mount other areas of other file
>> systems onto directories.  Symlinks are destroyed by Cygwin's
>> SETUP.EXE and the install process For example.  I have
>> a smallish "/usr" partition, but a large "/Users" partition.
>> "/usr/share" grew to hold more and more data over time, and
>> currently is using 16G, all by itself.  My "/usr" partition is
>> 15GB with 4.7GB free, 11G used.  So I needed to split
>> "/usr/share" off to somewhere else.  I don't have room for another
>> drive, but I do have room on "/Users".  So tell me,
>> why shouldn't I be able to create "/Users/share" and mount
>> "/Users/share" at "/usr/share"?
>>
>>     
>
> Linda, I'm not trying to reject what you're saying which I find very
> sound.  But for this scenario why not just use an entry in /etc/fstab
> similar to the below example?
>   
----
    I want my filesystem views between Windows and Cygwin to be
the same, as they, for the most part, are as I have:

 > mount -p
Prefix              Type         Flags
/                   user         binmode

So in cygwin /m/foo == M:\foo in windows and
//server/pathname in cygwin == \\server\pathname in Windows.

I use cygwin to manage my windows installation to some degree.

BIG NOTE -- in case people didn't know about this, but
with Cygwin64, all of the cygwin tools can be run in
Windows(x64)' repair console.  This was not true for
cygwin32 as it required a separate subsystem.   But this
allows for all the power of the *nix utils/env when
repairing/restoring a windows system.   A HUGE upgrade
in features & flexibility.


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