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On 4/4/2015 3:27 PM, lemkemch@t-online.de wrote: >> Clutching at straws (note the identical serial number, does it confuse Cygwin?): >> >> orion> /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo.exe /g >> Device Type : 7 >> Characteristics : 20 >> Volume Name : <ND D (HDD)> >> Serial Number : 3357258338 > ... >> >> orion> /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo.exe /d >> Device Type : 7 >> Characteristics : 20 >> Volume Name : <ND D (HDD)> >> Serial Number : 3357258338 > > This was it. I changed the Volume Serial Number with a Sysinternals tool > (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897436.aspx) > and after a reboot diff now recurses into the directories in question. > > Now is this a Cygwin bug or am I doing something terribly unsupported? The serial number is used by many tools to track the volumes that are crossed by reparse points to ensure that a loop does not occur. I suspect that in this case the tool is concluding that the reparse point is referring back to the same volume. Jeffrey Altman
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