X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:21:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Gary Oberbrunner To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <1446995784.289823.1350498100716.JavaMail.root@genarts.com> In-Reply-To: <139630876.289726.1350497632770.JavaMail.root@genarts.com> Subject: Mount Windows C drive as POSIX root? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 I understand about not installing cygwin in c:\. But I really want a single filesystem, so cygwin's / is Windows c:/, and cygwin /Program\ Files is Windows /Program Files and so on. I have an environment with lots of non-cygwin tools and translating paths between them is not workable. I'm not really doing cygwin-based software development (not using gcc etc.); I just want cygwin for its utilities, so "ls /Windows" works the same as "dir \Windows". For years I've done this by installing cygwin into c:\cygwin, and adjusting the /etc/fstab mount points so everything works. My fstab looks like this: c:/ / ntfs binary,override c:/cygwin/etc /etc ntfs binary,override c:/cygwin/usr /usr ntfs binary,override c:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin ntfs binary,override c:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib ntfs binary,override c:/cygwin/var /var ntfs binary,override c:/cygwin/dev /dev ntfs binary,override c:/cygwin/lib /lib ntfs binary,override c:/cygwin/proc /proc ntfs binary,override c:/cygwin/srv /srv ntfs binary,override But as I'm installing a new machine with a fresh cygwin, this no longer works. The mounts in fstab don't take effect (though interestingly c:/ -> / does work), and it then can't find /etc and many things then don't work. I can manually mount it from a bash shell, but putting it in fstab doesn't work as it used to. Is this still a plausible setup for 1.7? Is there a better way? -- Gary Oberbrunner -- 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