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Re: setup.exe and mounting home directory in fstab
- From: "James R. Phillips" <james_r_phillips at yahoo dot com>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 06:56:54 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: setup.exe and mounting home directory in fstab
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- Reply-to: "James R. Phillips" <james_r_phillips at yahoo dot com>
>I notice that every time I run setup.exe, my soft link gets removed and a new profile is created for me the next time I open a Cygwin terminal.
I can confirm a similar issue in setup-x86_64. However, the soft link for /home is not actually removed - it remains side-by-side with the new /home directory. The soft link was created using winsymlinks. This causes a cygwin terminal to ignore the previously created soft link and see a new empty user profile.
It seems to me that setup should not step on a user's existing system configuration in this way.
Regards
James R. Phillips
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