Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 13:49:53 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: mount trouble Message-ID: <20020904174953.GD3731@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20020902212808.GA22511@redhat.com> <20020903124845.38818.qmail@web21002.mail.yahoo.com> <3D7644C4.90204@cotagesoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D7644C4.90204@cotagesoft.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 10:37:08AM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote: >Nicholas Wourms wrote: >>--- Christopher Faylor wrote: >>[SNIP] >>mount -f -s -b -X "C:/cygwin/usr/X11R6/bin" "/usr/X11R6/bin" >>mount -f -s -b -E "C:/cygwin/usr/X11R6/lib" "/usr/X11R6/lib" >>mount -f -s -b -E "C:/cygwin/usr/X11R6/man" "/usr/X11R6/man" > >Couple of comments on this: > >* Does the X11 stuff get used so much that this level of fine-grained >mount options actually makes a big difference? Why not just default the >lot, and create a single mount point for "/usr/X11R6"? You could make everything executable, I guess, as long as you don't try to execute a man page. It doesn't really matter, however. >* Would it help to add an option to mount to "reset the mounts to >installation defaults"? At least for the Cygwin installation drive? You can certainly dump and restore the state yourself with mount -m. Adding it to mount is not appropriate. >That last option would wipe out all mounts for directories under the >Cygwin installation directory, and create a clean set of mounts as the >installer would have done. It would be invaluable for cleaning up from >botched mount experiments.. I think you need to look at existing mount options. It's easy enough to do this if you want to do it. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/