marco atzeri-4 wrote: > > On 6/13/2012 9:47 PM, richw wrote: >> >> >> Christopher Faylor-8 wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:19:42AM -0700, richw wrote: >>>> I occasionally find that cygwin is broken, and I find that /usr/bin and >>>> /usr/lib no longer are useful. The mount command (for which I need to >>>> type /bin/mount) shows nothing mounted there. I type the following two >>>> commands: >>>> mount c:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin >>>> mount c:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib >>>> and things work (through reboots) for a while, and then break again. >>>> Any hints how I can keep this from happening, or what might cause it? >>> >>> One big hint: >>> http://cygwin.com/problems.html >>> > >>> >>> >> Sometimes I'm not good at interpreting hints. Let's see - Google didn't >> find >> me anything. The FAQ doesn't seem to help. So I think the hint is telling >> me >> to include cygcheck output, which I will now do. >> http://old.nabble.com/file/p34007924/cygcheck.out cygcheck.out >> >> By the way, the response to the mount command now looks like >> >> rw@seven ~ >> $ mount >> C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,user) >> C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,user) >> C:/cygwin on / type ntfs (binary,auto) >> C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto) >> D: on /cygdrive/d type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto) >> >> rw@seven ~ >> $ >> >> I note that another cygwin installation has (binary,auto) instead of >> (binary,user) for the two mounts in question. >> > > look on difference between "/etc/fstab" > see > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table > > Regards > Marco > > -- > 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 > > >
Your point is??? I read > /usr/bin and /usr/lib are by default also automatic mount points generated > by the Cygwin DLL similar to the way the root directory is evaluated. > /usr/bin points to the directory the Cygwin DLL is installed in, /usr/lib > is supposed to point to the /lib directory. This choice is safe and > usually shouldn't be changed. An fstab entry for them is not required. > which tells me I should ignore /etc/fstab, and I shouldn't have to do anything. It should just work. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/-bin-and--lib-mount-points-occasionally-lost-tp34007108p34008957.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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
