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Re: How to remount hotplugged USB drive as noacl (for use with rsync)?


On 2/4/2014 9:10 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
>  How can one remount a hotplugged NTFS external USB drive as noacl?  (I
>  take it this is necessary to get sensible Windows permissions when using
>  rsync for backup.  If not, please correct me.)
Change the /cygdrive entry in /etc/fstab
Then you'll get normal Windows permissions everywhere, except, perhaps, the
Cygwin root.

Is this what you mean?

none /cygdrive cygdrive binary,posix=0,user,noacl,override 0 0

Is this a "good thing" to do? I find the following advice from the FAQ intimidating:

Therefore, the root directory evaluated by Cygwin itself is treated as an immutable mount point and can't be overridden in /etc/fstab... unless you think you really know what you're doing. In this case, use the override flag in the options field in the /etc/fstab file. Since this is a dangerous thing to do, do so at your own risk.

Will this affect my permission-dependent stuff like ssh authentication?




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