On 8/7/07, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote:
Marco Schuler wrote:
On 8/7/07, Holger Krull wrote:
Marco Schuler schrieb:
On 8/7/07, Holger Krull x wrote:
Why is everything mounted in textmode?
Hm, I don't know. That's just what cygwin did on installation. Is
there any problem about this?
Well, usually it is not what cygwin does. I don't know if it does any
paticular harm, but there is no reason to have / mounted textmode.
It seems as this is default from mount. man mount sais: By default,
mounts are in text mode
The mode of the mounts created by setup.exe depend on what you specify
for the Default text file type during installation. Unix (i.e. binary)
is the default. Like all defaults, your best bet is to stick with them
unless you have a need for something else and understand the implications.
If you'd prefer to change back to binary mounts now, you can either re-run
setup.exe and respecify your mount points as Unix or you can force a
remount of all mount points as binary with the following:
mount -m /tmp/mounts
edit '/tmp/mounts' and change all '-t's to '-b's
save your edits
chmod +x /tmp/mounts
/tmp/mounts
You will, of course, have to run through the file-system and change any
scripts you have from text to binary (with 'd2u') for those to work for
you again. If you're not too far into your installation configuration,
you may find it easier to start to remove what you have and reinstall.
I installed cygwin again using UNIX mounts. X works now :-)
Thank you both for your help!
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Regards,
Marco
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