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Re: Managed mount point question(s)?


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

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