Re: /bin and /lib mount points occasionally lost

[richw <richaw at gmail dot com>]

marco atzeri-4 wrote:
> 
> On 6/13/2012 9:47 PM, richw wrote:
>>
>>
>> Christopher Faylor-8 wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:19:42AM -0700, richw wrote:
>>>> I occasionally find that cygwin is broken, and I find that /usr/bin and
>>>> /usr/lib no longer are useful.  The mount command (for which I need to
>>>> type /bin/mount) shows nothing mounted there.  I type the following two
>>>> commands:
>>>> mount c:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin
>>>> mount c:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib
>>>> and things work (through reboots) for a while, and then break again.
>>>> Any hints how I can keep this from happening, or what might cause it?
>>>
>>> One big hint:
>>> http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>>>
> 
>>>
>>>
>> Sometimes I'm not good at interpreting hints. Let's see - Google didn't
>> find
>> me anything. The FAQ doesn't seem to help. So I think the hint is telling
>> me
>> to include cygcheck output, which I will now do.
>> http://old.nabble.com/file/p34007924/cygcheck.out cygcheck.out
>>
>> By the way, the response to the mount command now looks like
>>
>> rw@seven ~
>> $ mount
>> C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,user)
>> C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,user)
>> C:/cygwin on / type ntfs (binary,auto)
>> C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
>> D: on /cygdrive/d type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
>>
>> rw@seven ~
>> $
>>
>> I note that another cygwin installation has (binary,auto) instead of
>> (binary,user) for the two mounts in question.
>>
> 
> look on difference between "/etc/fstab"
> see
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table
> 
> Regards
> Marco
> 
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Your point is??? I read


> /usr/bin and /usr/lib are by default also automatic mount points generated
> by the Cygwin DLL similar to the way the root directory is evaluated.
> /usr/bin points to the directory the Cygwin DLL is installed in, /usr/lib
> is supposed to point to the /lib directory. This choice is safe and
> usually shouldn't be changed. An fstab entry for them is not required.
> 

which tells me I should ignore /etc/fstab, and I shouldn't have to do
anything. It should just work.
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