Odd mount and path problem

[Larry V. Streepy, Jr.]

Sylvain Petreolle wrote:

>>d:\cygwin\home on /home type system (binmode)
>>\cygwin\sbin on /sbin type system (binmode)
>>\cygwin\bin on /bin type system (binmode)
>>
> 
> basic response is :
> you miss the DOS drive letter in your mount points
> and the / moint point looks wrong (maybe d:\cygwin ?):
> D: on / type system (binmode)


Excellent - that was the problem, although I really don't understand 
why.  Once d:/ is mounted on /, why do I need to qualify all the other 
mount points?


> should be:
> d:\cygwin\sbin on /sbin type system (binmode)
> d:\cygwin\bin on /bin type system (binmode)
> 
> you seem to have too mount points. 
> typical mount points are :
> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type
> system (binmo
> de)
> C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type user (binmode)
> C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type user (binmode)
> C:\cygwin on / type user (binmode)
> c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount)


As I mentioned, I don't want /cygwin mounted as /.  This leads to the 
additional mount points to get things like etc, usr, etc. mounted under /.

Thanks a ton.

Note that this would appear to be the same issue that has plagued people 
regarding man not working with file not found errors.

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