Re: setup.exe and mounting home directory in fstab

2013-10-04 Thread James R. Phillips
>I notice that every time I run setup.exe, my soft link gets removed and a new >profile is created for me the next time I open a Cygwin terminal. I can confirm a similar issue in setup-x86_64. However, the soft link for /home is not actually removed - it remains side-by-side with the new /home d

Re: setup.exe and mounting home directory in fstab

2013-09-20 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Warren Young! >>> My current solution is to just mount it in fstab with the following line: >>> >>>c:/Users /home ntfs binary,posix=0,nouser >> >> Alternatively, you can set HOME in your >> Windows environment to point to the directory you want as your home. > Or, change the second

Re: setup.exe and mounting home directory in fstab

2013-09-19 Thread Warren Young
On 9/19/2013 19:15, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 9/19/2013 12:16 PM, Rob Siklos wrote: My current solution is to just mount it in fstab with the following line: c:/Users /home ntfs binary,posix=0,nouser Alternatively, you can set HOME in your Windows environment to point to the directory

Re: setup.exe and mounting home directory in fstab

2013-09-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/19/2013 12:16 PM, Rob Siklos wrote: Background: I wanted my /home directory to point to c:\Users rather than the out-of-the-box home directory created by cygwin. In order to accomplish this, I deleted the existing home folder and created a soft link mapping /home to /cygdrive/c/Users. Thi

setup.exe and mounting home directory in fstab

2013-09-19 Thread Rob Siklos
Background: I wanted my /home directory to point to c:\Users rather than the out-of-the-box home directory created by cygwin. In order to accomplish this, I deleted the existing home folder and created a soft link mapping /home to /cygdrive/c/Users. This works great, except that I notice