Dear Cyhwin Users and Team,
since a while I have issues removing cygwin installations, especially
the symlinks to true type fonts in /usr/share/fonts/microsoft.
Looking at these links with Windows tools I get:
C:\bin\cygwin\usr\share\fonts\microsoft>fsutil reparsepoint query
wingding.ttf
Reparse Tag Value : 0xa000001d
Tag value: Microsoft
Tag value: Name Surrogate
Reparse Data Length: 0x00000025
Reparse Data:
0000: 02 00 00 00 2f 6d 6e 74 2f 63 2f 57 69 6e 64 6f ..../mnt/c/Windo
0010: 77 73 2f 46 6f 6e 74 73 2f 77 69 6e 67 64 69 6e ws/Fonts/wingdin
0020: 67 2e 74 74 66 g.ttf
I wonder if the path "/mnt/c/Windows/Fonts/wingding.ttf" is something
which should be written into a NTFS reparse point by cygwin setup.
Probably not - it looks like a cygwin path and it is understandable that
this confuses NTFS.
Btw.: I meanwhile managed to reliably remove cygwin install folders with
the below command sequence ($1 being the cygwin folder name) - sorry an
ugly mix of bash and DOS tools:
PATH_WINFMT="$(cygpath -w -a $1)"
rm -rf "$1" && { echo "first removal run successful"; exit; }
TAKEOWN /F "$PATH_WINFMT" /R /D Y
ICACLS "$PATH_WINFMT" /grant <your user name>:F /T
CMD /C "DIR /AL /S /B $PATH_WINFMT" | sed 's|\\|\\\\|g' | tr -d "\r" |
while read f; do echo removing reparsepoint "$f"; FSUTIL REPARSEPOINT
DELETE "$f"; done
rm -rfv "$1"
Best regards,
Michael
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