I've been using Cygwin for a long time. I haven't had reason to
reinstall it until recently when I got a new computer. I installed the
latest version and discovered the -s option to mount was removed. All
I wanted to do is change the cygdrive prefix from /cygdrive to /. I
discovered that I needed to edit /etc/fstab, I uncommented the entry
below:
none / cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0 0
This worked fine on local disks, but made it impossible to create
files, directories or modify them on mounted NTFS shares. I was stuck
for hours looking for a solution. I finally RTM on mount and /etc/
fstab and discovered the "noacl" option. I changed the entry to:
none / cygdrive binary,posix=0,user,noacl 0 0
This solved the problem. Hopefully this will help other people who run
into the same issue. It was pretty difficult to find a fix for.
A suggestion for a later release, add the "noacl" option to the
commented out /etc/fstab entry.
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