Thank you for that information. That's the clue I needed.
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 13:37:50 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 11:19:42AM -0700, Mark Paulus wrote: >>In general, does it make sense to mount c:/cygwin as >>/ in managed mode? >No. >>Is there some reason this would not be a good idea? >Since you are supposed to first create an empty directory, then mount it >as managed mount, and then populate it, it doesn't make sense to do this >with the cygwin directory unless you want to first create a normal cygwin >directory, then create a managed directory and then move everything from >the cygwin directory to it. >Mounting a non-empty directory as managed is asking for trouble. >cgf >-- >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
