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? # $ represents original mintty # % represents the elevated bash $cygstart --action=runas bash %cp -a /usr/share /cygdrive/c/Users/ %mv /usr/share /usr/share-bak %mkdir /usr/share %vi /etc/fstab :$ o c:/Users/share /usr/share ntfs binary,posix=0,acl,user,notexec 0 0 <esc> :wq %exit $ mount /usr/share > Same problem under "/opt" under linux. "/opt" is > a directory on my root partition. When I wanted to > install "VirtualBox" (which lives under "/opt/VirtualBox" it > refused to run from a path that had a symlink in it. How > would you solve that? > > I used a 'bind' mount. VirtualBox rejected > symlinks in its base path, but it does work with mounted > filesystems. > > In the same way, not only Cygwin's "setup.exe" > but also many of the "install" scripts that install programs > under cygwin, check to see if there is a symlink as part > of their base path. If they find one -- they remove it > and re-create the directory where there used to be a > symlink. Result: "/usr/share/man/man1/newprog1.gz" > s all alone under 'man' as "/usr/share/info/newprog.gz" > is by itself under /usr/share/info. Where did the rest > of my files go? > > They are still there -- but under > "/Users/share/...". That's my main problem. Cygwin > doesn't install things in "/usr/share/<location>/<prog>" > But first, removes all existing symlinks in its base > path. > Have you considered the Windows mountvol to resolve this issue? Using a similar example as above you could use mountvol to assign a VolumeName to [A-Z]:/Users/share as e.g. S: and modify the /etc/fstab entry to: S:/ /usr/share ntfs binary,posix=0,acl,user,notexec 0 0 -- cyg Simple -- 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
