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After upgrading from Cygwin 1.5 to Cygwin 1.7 my user mount points disappeared! How can I get them back?

April 26, 2017Cygwin Disappeared Mount Points upgrading user

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After upgrading from Cygwin 1.5 to Cygwin 1.7 my user mount points disappeared! How can I get them back?

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When you upgrade an existing older Cygwin installation to Cygwin 1.7, your old system mount points (stored in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE branch of your registry) are read by a script and the /etc/fstab file is generated from these entries. No such automatism exists for the user mount points formerly stored in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER branch of the registry. There’s a bash script for your convenience, which creates a user-specific /etc/fstab/${USER} file for you, called /bin/copy-user-registry-fstab.