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Re: how to let cygwin does not mount /bin /usr/bin automaticlly?


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:37:58PM +0800, "???????????????" wrote:
>> The entry that you used in your previous mail was not correctly formatted.
>>
>> It should be something like:
>>
>> f:/cygwin_1.7/usr/bin /usr/bin ntfs binary 0 0
>
>That is great. Thanks for your patient.
>I have another question. Can the first field of fstab use relative
>path.

That's one of those "Why not just try it" questions but the answer is
"no".  How could that possibly work?

>I expect to make the cygwin portable, that is, i need to move it
>to somewhere esle without changing the fstab every time.

In that case, you should just rely on the fact that Cygwin sets /
relative to where cygwin1.dll lives and not mess with fstab at all.

cgf

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