X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=mnsHRJ1/ERs4j7vMYgtoWOp2zZh4lX9wZq/ESBZLuJ+ Kvb4E97WQdFCAwELhIjPSva3K3ouQoLOyEUmisv3guWbBA+wwbd3dM5PpfEjP1Rf yCzvSHTGddAXqGrswwPYXBjI8ys4svJOR/6jUAUSe2U8ClDDLCwQDFOg0WcgAK/I = DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=SQBp1QQaw31lJIflaQr/qnHS4og=; b=oHOrH1oCtBl2Vxeo2 Z9xMveYVYWMx4QJ/5rOh4td8S+kCdCz+Sva07w4yLiP+uKC/PLNBha1aIZpLUVRV ZWOIymrZUlZcLjmHmXtr7ctjT/EKQufHaQsksxUV1gnnmQjUwYIXSwztCyqLpcaN vWh1Ltzcmv4Qt2TNWC09bLTQgY= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,GIT_PATCH_2,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=repair, HUGE, repairing, views X-HELO: Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org Message-ID: <58C4905F.9010502@tlinx.org> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 16:03:43 -0800 From: L A Walsh User-Agent: Thunderbird MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Junctions != Symlinks; Treat Junctions as MS-FS mounts; MS-symlinks are symlinks References: <58C31431 DOT 1020408 AT tlinx DOT org> <753097b6-210e-1073-6dd5-b0cc4c76571f AT gmail DOT com> In-Reply-To: <753097b6-210e-1073-6dd5-b0cc4c76571f@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes cyg Simple wrote: > On 3/10/2017 4:01 PM, L A Walsh wrote: > >> I want to be able to mount other areas of other file >> systems onto directories. Symlinks are destroyed by Cygwin's >> SETUP.EXE and the install process For example. I have >> a smallish "/usr" partition, but a large "/Users" partition. >> "/usr/share" grew to hold more and more data over time, and >> currently is using 16G, all by itself. My "/usr" partition is >> 15GB with 4.7GB free, 11G used. So I needed to split >> "/usr/share" off to somewhere else. I don't have room for another >> drive, but I do have room on "/Users". So tell me, >> why shouldn't I be able to create "/Users/share" and mount >> "/Users/share" at "/usr/share"? >> >> > > Linda, I'm not trying to reject what you're saying which I find very > sound. But for this scenario why not just use an entry in /etc/fstab > similar to the below example? > ---- I want my filesystem views between Windows and Cygwin to be the same, as they, for the most part, are as I have: > mount -p Prefix Type Flags / user binmode So in cygwin /m/foo == M:\foo in windows and //server/pathname in cygwin == \\server\pathname in Windows. I use cygwin to manage my windows installation to some degree. BIG NOTE -- in case people didn't know about this, but with Cygwin64, all of the cygwin tools can be run in Windows(x64)' repair console. This was not true for cygwin32 as it required a separate subsystem. But this allows for all the power of the *nix utils/env when repairing/restoring a windows system. A HUGE upgrade in features & flexibility. -- 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