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Re: fstab not automounting...


Corinna Vinschen wrote at about 17:19:29 +0200 on Thursday, October 17, 2013:
 > On Oct 17 10:55, kosowsky wrote:
 > > Corinna Vinschen wrote at about 11:38:46 +0200 on Thursday, October 17, 2013:
 > >  > On Oct 17 01:49, kosowsky wrote:
 > > Yes - I would have thought this would work -- but neither rebooting
 > > nor stopping all cygwin processes and shells serves to get my fstab
 > > read.
 > > I need to manually run 'mount -a' each time -- which completes without errors.
 > > I know I didn't need to do this in Cygwin 1.7 x86.
 > > I am now running Cygwin 1.7.25 x64
 > > 
 > > Any thought on what could be preventing fstab from working
 > > automagically.
 > 
 > No, WJFFM.  There's some sort of mismatch, either in the username or in
 > the paths.  Did you just copy /etc files from your 32 bit to your 64 bit
 > installation, perhaps?
 > 

Ahhh... silly me... I figured out the problem...
I used a (soft) link for /etc/fstab -- it works just fine once cygwin
is launched but obviously it fails during startup. Sometimes I forget
that cygwin despite all its awesomeness still isn't Linux...

Everything works fine when I eliminate the link.

Thanks so much for your help!

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