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Subject: Re: /bin and /lib mount points occasionally lost
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On 6/20/2012 8:45 PM, richw wrote:
>
>
> ASSI wrote:
>>
>>
>> Those should see the following mount points according to cygcheck3.out:
>>
>> C:\cygwin        /          system  binary,auto
>> C:\cygwin\bin    /usr/bin   system  binary,auto
>> C:\cygwin\lib    /usr/lib   system  binary,auto
>> cygdrive prefix  /cygdrive  user    binary,auto
>>
>> and since they appear to be working correctly (but check the logfiles)
>> one can assume that these mounts are present.
>>
>>
> I modified /etc/exports to read
> / (ro,no_root_squash)
> /usr/bin (ro,no_root_squash)
> /usr/lib (ro,no_root_squash)
> and then tried a mount.
> I was surprised that I could not mount /usr/bin, but I could mount /bin.
> (Is that correct? Why?)

pure guess:  /usr/bin is already a mount point for /bin
there is no real "c:\cygwin\usr\bin"   directory


Regards
Marco





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