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Re: Can I change default mount options


Greetings, Pan Ruochen!

> Hi Andrey Repin,

>>
>> No, why? Your mount options choice is very sane, IMO.
>>

> I just dislike cygwin treats every file as executable.

This is a core Windows behavior, nothing Cygwin can do about it, not it
should. In Windows, any file is, potentially, executable, in one way or
another.

> Comparing mount options of msys2 against cygwin, msys2 has an extra noacl
> option. So I guess noacl may turn off this cygwin `feature`.

No need to guess, when there's a clear documented explanation of every option.

> And I also wish
> this turning-off apply to the usb disk but I am unable to forecast what is
> the disk letter for that usb-disk. That is basically why I wonder the
> "default" mount options.

It could.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Thursday, April 6, 2017 22:51:51

Sorry for my terrible english...


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