Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: update via setup.exe removed NTFS junction? From: Robert Collins To: Robert R Schneck-McConnell Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-xtwXIpyqtXRCRN+CWowh" Message-Id: <1075851954.1481.65.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 10:45:54 +1100 X-IsSubscribed: yes --=-xtwXIpyqtXRCRN+CWowh Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 10:37, Robert R Schneck-McConnell wrote: > For reasons which are now obscure to me, I had set up an NTFS junction > point from /var (c:\cygwin\var) to some other partition. Could have > done it with mount, but I didn't. >=20 > Just today after running setup.exe and getting cygwin-1.5.7-1 and a few > other things, I found that /var was now an ordinary directory with > the only contents the subdirectory cache (with empty subdirectory man) > and the subdirectory log (with setup.log and setup.log.full). > Luckily my mail spool et al were still intact at the old junction > target. >=20 > Can anyone divine what happened? Cygcheck output attached, in case > it is useful. cygcheck isn't useful. The full setup log might be useful, but I rather doubt it.=20 Short answer is: 'don't do that'. Rob --=20 GPG key available at: . --=-xtwXIpyqtXRCRN+CWowh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBAIDKxI5+kQ8LJcoIRAoNbAJ0ZLmWi+8JsdetisOwqT3w6lKcIhgCfRNod LO3yAUciXgSSr9Bni5oIqbo= =DpVv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-xtwXIpyqtXRCRN+CWowh--