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On Oct 18 00:00, cygwin wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote at about 17:19:29 +0200 on Thursday, October 17, 2013: > > On Oct 17 10:55, kosowsky wrote: > > > Corinna Vinschen wrote at about 11:38:46 +0200 on Thursday, October 17, 2013: > > > > On Oct 17 01:49, kosowsky wrote: > > > Yes - I would have thought this would work -- but neither rebooting > > > nor stopping all cygwin processes and shells serves to get my fstab > > > read. > > > I need to manually run 'mount -a' each time -- which completes without errors. > > > I know I didn't need to do this in Cygwin 1.7 x86. > > > I am now running Cygwin 1.7.25 x64 > > > > > > Any thought on what could be preventing fstab from working > > > automagically. > > > > No, WJFFM. There's some sort of mismatch, either in the username or in > > the paths. Did you just copy /etc files from your 32 bit to your 64 bit > > installation, perhaps? > > > > Ahhh... silly me... I figured out the problem... > I used a (soft) link for /etc/fstab -- it works just fine once cygwin > is launched but obviously it fails during startup. That makes sense. For POSIX symlinks to work, you need the mount table, which is a chicken/egg problem in case of the fstab files, so Cygwin opens the fstab files using NtCreateFile. OTOH, a native symlink will work: # Run shell with "Run as administrator" $ rm /etc/fstab $ CYGWIN=winsymlinks:native ln -s /path/to/your/fstab /etc/fstab # Exit all Cygwin processes and restart some shell $ mount Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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