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Re: Managed mount point question(s)?


Thank you for that information.  That's the clue I needed.


On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 13:37:50 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:

>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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