On 6/29/2016 8:24 AM, KARL BOTTS wrote:
2) I always have cygdrive-prefix set to /, so that I can do, e.g. "cd /c". But when you reinstall cygwin, you must do it again with "mount -c". And then immediately do "mount -m > /etc/fstab", so that it sticks. Then, you should patch up the symlinks in /etc/{hosts,services,couple-more}; find them with readlink. There are some more in some fonts dir, but I ignore those: don't care.
A minor suggestion here: I have had less trouble by linking individual drives, e.g., /c -> /cygdrive/c This does not get you every one of them, but you can set more (/d -> /cygdrive/d, etc.) and cover them over time. May not be for everyone, but setting that prefix to / seems to be potentially problematic. More broadly, and this may be something for the cygwin / rebaseall maintainers, it would have helped me to have clear instructions as to how to blow away the rebase database so that I can force it to be rebuilt. Installations and upgrades do sometimes get me into rebase issues, and sometimes it seems that rebuilding the database (and (often) rebooting as well) are needed to fix it. Having those instructions in the documentation (man page, etc.) for rebase and friends would have saved me time figuring it out. The docs seem somewhat to pre-date the advent of the rebase database and incremental rebasing. Regards -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple