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From: Jacob Beard <jbeard4 AT cs DOT mcgill DOT ca>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:06:15 -0400
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Subject: Re: mysteriously, /home always mounted at C:/Users/jbeard/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft
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Hi,

Please ignore the previous query - in true Windows fashion, I
rebooted, and now it seems to be fixed.

Jake

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Jacob Beard <jbeard4 AT cs DOT mcgill DOT ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had installed a 3PP distribution of OpenSSH, before installing
> cygwin, and I'm now trying to recover from it. It seems this
> application is known to cause trouble with cygwin installs:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00418.html
>
> The problem I'm seeing is that Cygwin is mounting /home at
> C:/Users/jbeard/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft, instead of C:\cygwin\home.
>
> Here is the output of mount:
>
> $ mount
> C:/Users/jbeard/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft on /home type ntfs (binary)
> C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto)
> C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto)
> C:/cygwin on / type ntfs (binary,auto)
> C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> H: on /cygdrive/h type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> P: on /cygdrive/p type nfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> Q: on /cygdrive/q type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> R: on /cygdrive/r type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> S: on /cygdrive/s type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> T: on /cygdrive/t type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> U: on /cygdrive/u type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> W: on /cygdrive/w type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> X: on /cygdrive/x type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> Y: on /cygdrive/y type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
>
> I've worked around this by editing /etc/passwd, but this doesn't fully
> solve the problem, as I've altered my windows DOS path to use cygwin
> executables, and these are also confused by the broken mount, which is
> not handled by the /etc/passwd workaround.
>
> I've tried editing /etc/fstab, which for some reason originally had
> the following line:
>
> C:/Users/jbeard/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft /home some_fs binary 0 0
>
> I've now changed that line to:
>
> C:/cygwin/home /home some_fs binary 0 0
>
> I closed all of my cygwin sessions, but the change to /etc/fstab seems
> to be ignored, as mount produces the same output.
>
> Does anyone know why the change to /etc/fstab might not be propagating?
>
> I'd appreciate any guidance anyone can offer. Thanks,
>
> Jake

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