X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: References: <470B56F8.23B485B7@dessent.net> Subject: RE: one othe robservation about my install update Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 13:04:41 +0100 Message-ID: <049f01c80a6c$93047df0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On 09 October 2007 12:04, Mike Marchywka wrote: > I had moved /usr to a different disk from my other stuff for a variety of > reasons. > This had been working quite well with a link. > I noticed that during the update, someone created a new /usr directory: > > $ ls -al | grep usr > drwxrwxrwx+ 16 Administrator Users 0 Oct 8 18:26 usr > drwxrwxrwx+ 16 Administrator Users 0 Oct 8 18:26 usr > > I'm still sorting this out but thought I would pass it along as it seems a > bit > surprising. Windoze explorer shows the two, one as a link folder and the > other > as a real directory. I'm going to try to copy the new dir into the old > linked dir > after backing up the old. Hopefully, everything will just merge... Beware mountpoints! I think that is why this has happened, but it does look like an oversight in setup.exe that it goes and creates a directory in the wrong place. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/