I think I now know how /usr vanished. While doing something with
/cygwin via Windows, a faulty mouse motion moved /cygwin/usr to
another directory under /cywin/c . /usr was still there but invisible
to me. (I should have run a giant 'find' or such to locate it, but
didn't.)
I found the hidden
Greetings, Septimus Stevens!
If I can complain a little, I found the download defaults to be
faulty. Tiny standard packages like 'bc', 'more' and some others
should be loaded by default.
Cygwin keep a copy of all downloaded packages. I don't see a reason to
redownload everything, if you just
Septimus Stevens septimus.stevens at gmail.com writes:
But my /usr suddenly disappeared, as though I'd done a 'rm -r /usr'
but it seems VERY unlikely I typed that. ( /bin and /lib are still
there)
Any idea how this could happen?
You might have had it marked in Explorer when deleting
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:47 AM, Achim Gratz strom...@nexgo.de wrote:
Septimus Stevens septimus.stevens at gmail.com writes:
But my /usr suddenly disappeared, as though I'd done a 'rm -r /usr'
but it seems VERY unlikely I typed that. ( /bin and /lib are still
there)
Any idea how this could
Greetings, Septimus Stevens!
(This is my first post to cygwin. Kudos to cygwin dvelopers -- I've
been using it for 9 months and am amazed how well it works.)
But my /usr suddenly disappeared, as though I'd done a 'rm -r /usr'
but it seems VERY unlikely I typed that. ( /bin and /lib are
(This is my first post to cygwin. Kudos to cygwin dvelopers -- I've
been using it for 9 months and am amazed how well it works.)
But my /usr suddenly disappeared, as though I'd done a 'rm -r /usr'
but it seems VERY unlikely I typed that. ( /bin and /lib are still
there)
Any idea how this could
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