[HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Apr  3 14:45, Larry Hall wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> The FS type field is used now to recognize the cygdrive prefix.  So,
>> my current local /etc/fstab file looks like this:
>>   $ cat /etc/fstab
>>   # C:\cygwin / ntfs binary 0 0
>>   C:\cygwin\bin /usr/bin ntfs binary 0 0
>>   C:\cygwin\lib /usr/lib ntfs binary 0 0
>>   C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts ntfs binary 0 
>> 0
>>   C:\cygwin\home\corinna\textmode-dir /home/corinna/textmode-dir ntfs text 
>> 0 0
>>   c:\cygwin\home\corinna\managed /home/corinna/managed ntfs binary,managed 
>> 0 0
>>   \\fs01\archiv /home/archiv smbfs binary 0 0
>>   none /mnt cygdrive binary 0 0
>> Note especially the first entry for the root dir, which is commented out,
>> and the last entry for the cygdrive prefix.
>
> Looks good to me.  Before this is all done though, I expect we'll need to
> include an explanation before the first line explaining why it's commented.
> Something like:
>
> # Commented line below represents the default '/' mount point.  To override
> # this, uncomment the line and make the appropriate changes.

Well, it's *my* /etc/fstab file.  You can just omit the root dir entry
on your machine, or override it with something else.  I don't think
anybody on the world really needs or even expects an explaining comment
on my local machine, except, maybe, a hacker :)


Corinna

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