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Re: mounts in gnupro99r1p1


----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheuk Cheng" <cheng@powertv.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 16:42
Subject: RE: mounts in gnupro99r1p1


> Thanks all for the input.  We had support contract with Red Hat in the
past
> although I am not sure of the current situation.  Another thing is that we
> are using both gnupro99r1p1 and the latest version of Cygwin we download
> from the net.  I was originally trying to find out if there were general
> guidelines for setting all the mounts regardless of different Cygwin
> versions, e.g. /usr/local should point to the parent directory containing
> the "bin" directory of the Cygwin tools (although this was only my guess).

I don't think I've seen any rules, but setup.exe only sets /, /usr/bin, and
/usr/lib; everything else is up to you.

I generally create a directories in / then mount each local drive and any
directories or network shares I use a lot to those directories.  You can do
whatever suits you, but I recommend leaving the three mounts created by
setup.exe alone unless you have a very very good reason.

$ mount
d:\cygwin-build\other-src on /usr/src type system (binmode)
d:\cygwin-build on /cygwin-build type system (binmode)
c:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
c:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
c:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
a: on /a type system (binmode)
c: on /c type system (binmode)
d: on /d type system (binmode)
r: on /cdrom type system (binmode)
v: on /v type system (binmode)
w: on /w type system (binmode)

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