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Re: [HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Apr 3 14:45, Larry Hall wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
The FS type field is used now to recognize the cygdrive prefix. So,
my current local /etc/fstab file looks like this:
$ cat /etc/fstab
# C:\cygwin / ntfs binary 0 0
C:\cygwin\bin /usr/bin ntfs binary 0 0
C:\cygwin\lib /usr/lib ntfs binary 0 0
C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts ntfs binary 0 0
C:\cygwin\home\corinna\textmode-dir /home/corinna/textmode-dir ntfs text 0 0
c:\cygwin\home\corinna\managed /home/corinna/managed ntfs binary,managed 0 0
\\fs01\archiv /home/archiv smbfs binary 0 0
none /mnt cygdrive binary 0 0
Note especially the first entry for the root dir, which is commented out,
and the last entry for the cygdrive prefix.
Looks good to me.  Before this is all done though, I expect we'll need to
include an explanation before the first line explaining why it's commented.
Something like:

# Commented line below represents the default '/' mount point.  To override
# this, uncomment the line and make the appropriate changes.

Well, it's *my* /etc/fstab file. You can just omit the root dir entry on your machine, or override it with something else. I don't think anybody on the world really needs or even expects an explaining comment on my local machine, except, maybe, a hacker :)

I guess I misunderstood. I thought this was an example of a generated fstab file. So is there going to be a generated file with generated entries too once this gets out into the "real world"?

--
Larry


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