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RE: "mount -a" has no effect on the cygdrive prefix
- From: Karl M <karlm30 at hotmail dot com>
- To: <corinna at vinschen dot de>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:16:50 -0800
- Subject: RE: "mount -a" has no effect on the cygdrive prefix
- References: <COL102-W53B7D7862508B98E5C7168B5800@phx.gbl> <20091224111047.GB30006@calimero.vinschen.de> <COL102-W246795B5594B243F68ABBFB5790@phx.gbl> <20091230114617.GA32322@calimero.vinschen.de>,<20100111121529.GJ14511@calimero.vinschen.de>
> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:15:29 +0100
> From: corinna
> Subject: Re: "mount -a" has no effect on the cygdrive prefix
>
> On Dec 30 12:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Dec 29 16:27, Karl M wrote:
>>>> From: corinna-cygwin
>>>> The cygdrive prefix is explicitely ignored when calling mount -a.
>>>> The problem is, I'm not sure anymore *why* I did it that way.
>>>> I added it to my TODO list, at least to figure out the reason...
>>>
>>> Did you figure out the reason?
>>
>> I know the reason, I just don't work on it yet. It's on the TODO list
>> for the new year.
>
> That's fixed in CVS now.
>
Hi All...
I just reviewed chapter 3 of the user guide and found no mention of posix=0
as the default for /cygdrive. Perhaps something like this in section 3.1.2
in the table of options.
posix=0 - Switch off case sensitivity for paths under this mount point. (default for /cygdrive)
posix=1 - Switch on case sensitivity for paths under this mount point (default for all other mount points).
Ans something like this in section 3.1.3.
...assuming the cygdrive mount options are binary,posix=0 (the defaults), then any file /cygdrive/x/file will be...
Also, I understand your reasoning on posix=0 in the output of the mount
command, except for "mount -m" output which for all other options suppresses
the default options because it targets the fstab file. I don't think that
"mount -m" should output posix=0 for the cygdrive prefix.
Alternatively, one could make posix=1 the default for all mounts. :-)
This might be (inconvenient now, but) less problem in the long run.
Thanks,
...Karl
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