X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:51:06 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: how to let cygwin does not mount /bin /usr/bin automaticlly? Message-ID: <20090923135106.GA2433@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4AB8E7DC.5080108@cygwin.com> <8d7f7110909220830i51eddcd3o5146eefbd9d4faa6@mail.gmail.com> <4AB8F002.5060100@cygwin.com> <8d7f7110909220911y7475b4d9g7342e904e62ea134@mail.gmail.com> <20090922163459.GA29242@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <8d7f7110909222009k2a103d0brf43020aad799a942@mail.gmail.com> <20090923032113.GA32490@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <8d7f7110909222036h17e91351v2b7423dc9de02768@mail.gmail.com> <20090923041912.GA32571@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <8d7f7110909222137l5774be4v3269a0cb66f47a72@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8d7f7110909222137l5774be4v3269a0cb66f47a72@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:37:58PM +0800, "???????????????" wrote: >> The entry that you used in your previous mail was not correctly formatted. >> >> It should be something like: >> >> f:/cygwin_1.7/usr/bin /usr/bin ntfs binary 0 0 > >That is great. Thanks for your patient. >I have another question. Can the first field of fstab use relative >path. That's one of those "Why not just try it" questions but the answer is "no". How could that possibly work? >I expect to make the cygwin portable, that is, i need to move it >to somewhere esle without changing the fstab every time. In that case, you should just rely on the fact that Cygwin sets / relative to where cygwin1.dll lives and not mess with fstab at all. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple