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Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:47:30 -0500
From: Paul McFerrin <pmcferrin@columbus.rr.com>
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Subject: I'm confussed: / vs. fstab
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My PC has two instances of cygwin.  My production is 1,7,1-1 while I'm 
trying to get my 1.5 working again.  For my 1.5, I have populated the 
/c/_cygwinCD/etc/fstab with the following contents:

/c/_cygwinCD/etc.$ cat fstab
C:/_cygwinCD/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto)
C:/_cygwinCD/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto)
C:/_cygwinCD on / type ntfs (binary,auto)
A: on /a type unknown (binary)
C: on /c type ntfs (binary)
D: on /d type unknown (binary)
E: on /e type ntfs (binary)
F: on /f type ntfs (binary)
G: on /g type ntfs (binary)
H: on /h type ntfs (binary)
I: on /i type ntfs (binary)
J: on /j type ntfs (binary)
K: on /k type ntfs (binary)

However when I startup the 1.5 system, the root (/) is set inproperly.  
A "cd /" fails. Some other particulars are:
   PATH=\_cygwinCD\bin;C:\Program Files;...   OK(DOS)
   HOME=/home/Paul
   cd /
   ksh: cd: / - No such file or directory
   ENV=/home/Paul/.bash_login
After reading the section on the "mount-point", I thought that shed some 
light on the subject but apparently not.  I also linked etc/fstab to 
etc/fstab.d/Paul but that didn't help.  Can someone identify anything I 
missed in the mount-point section?

Another thought I'm uncertain about.  When you use "mount -m" as part of 
fstab construction, the mount command does not output the mounted 
filesystems on drive C:

When I re-read the mount-point section again, I discovered that words 
like "on" and "type" are not mentioned and should be omitted.  Thus my 
fstab looks like:
C:/_cygwinCD/bin /usr/bin   ntfs (binary,auto)
C:/_cygwinCD/lib /usr/lib   ntfs (binary,auto)
C:/_cygwinCD /   ntfs (binary,auto,override)
A: /a   unknown (binary)
C: /c   ntfs (binary)
D: /d   unknown (binary)
E: /e   ntfs (binary)
F: /f   ntfs (binary)
G: /g   ntfs (binary)
H: /h   ntfs (binary)
I: /i   ntfs (binary)
J: /j   ntfs (binary)
K: /k   ntfs (binary)

Note:  I know that 1.5 & 1.7 are mutually exclussive.

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