X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4B56274D.8050100@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:42:37 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.5.25-15: problem with mount table References: <6daaa75b1001191303y25211f5cie950abe8ac06eb81@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6daaa75b1001191303y25211f5cie950abe8ac06eb81@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 01/19/2010 04:03 PM, Mike Nistor wrote: > Just a few minutes ago, I tried to unmount a few mounts I had the > previous semester. Because I was not able to unmount each specific > mount I had, I instead ran umount -a, which erased both the /bin and > /etc entries from the mount table. A few notes: I realize I should not > be using mount and should rather be using ln. I tried reinstalling > cygwin to repair the mount table, and that did not work thus far. I > tried remounting them, but to no avail. > > What's happening now, is that when I run cygwin it does not > autmatically cd me to my user directory, and I had to add to the > windows path for bash to even see cygcheck, ls, and basics like that. > I'm attaching cygcheck.out, and if anyone has any idea how to repair > the mount table from my mistake, please help. 'cygcheck' is not a Cygwin program so there is no need to do anything special to run it. Do the following: mount -s -b e:/cygwin / mount -s -b e:/bin /usr/bin mount -s -b e:/lib /usr/lib mount -s -b -c /cygdrive That should get you back to the basics. Of course, the above is from memory so there might be a typo or two in there. I don't keep around a 1.5.x environment so I can't easily check the specific syntax. In the future, you might find 'mount -m' helpful. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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