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In what way is /cygdrive special WRT to permissions?
- From: "Andy Hall" <fixpertise-consulting at comcast dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 15:40:06 -0700
- Subject: In what way is /cygdrive special WRT to permissions?
I have a vanilla 1.7.7 installation on Windows XP Professional which is a
standalone machine not in a domain. The /etc/passwd and /etc/group files
have been refreshed from scratch.
The system has a remote file system (Samba) mounted as F: via the normal
Windows mechanism for mapping network drives.
With the default /etc/fstab file which has no specific mounts, the
mount command shows
$ mount
C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto)
C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto)
C:/cygwin on / type ntfs (binary,auto)
C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
F: on /cygdrive/f type smbfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
and ls -l of /cygdrive/f shows
$ ls -l /cygdrive/f
total 2048
drwxrwxr-x 36 ???????? ???????? 0 2010-10-04 16:30 builds
drwxrwxr-x 17 ???????? ???????? 0 2010-10-04 15:23 releases
If instead, I map F: to /cygdrive/c with the following entry in /etc/fstab
F: /cygdrive/f smbfs binary,noacl 0 0
mount shows
$ mount
C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto)
C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto)
C:/cygwin on / type ntfs (binary,auto)
F: on /cygdrive/f type smbfs (binary,noacl)
C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
And ls -l of /cygdrive/f shows
$ ls -l /cygdrive/f
total 2048
drwxrwxr-x 36 ???????? ???????? 0 2010-10-04 16:30 builds
drwxrwxr-x 17 ???????? ???????? 0 2010-10-04 15:23 releases
If instead I now map F: to /repos1 via the following in /etc/fstab
F: /repos1 smbfs binary,noacl 0 0
Mount shows
$ mount
C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto)
C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto)
C:/cygwin on / type ntfs (binary,auto)
F: on /repos1 type smbfs (binary,noacl)
C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
And ls -l of repos1 shows
$ ls -l /repos1
total 2048
drwxr-xr-x 36 ahall None 0 2010-10-04 16:30 builds
drwxr-xr-x 17 ahall None 0 2010-10-04 15:23 releases
Why am I getting -1 for the uid and gid when I mount to /cygdrive/f but not
to /repos1?
Andy
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