Greetings, lemkemch@t-online.de! >>Clutching at straws (note the identical serial number, does it confuse Cygwin?): >>>> orion> /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo.exe /g >>Device Type : 7 >>Characteristics : 20 >>Volume Name : <ND D (HDD)> >>Serial Number : 3357258338 > ... >>>> orion> /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo.exe /d >>Device Type : 7 >>Characteristics : 20 >>Volume Name : <ND D (HDD)> >>Serial Number : 3357258338 > This was it. I changed the Volume Serial Number with a Sysinternals tool > (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897436.aspx) > and after a reboot diff now recurses into the directories in question. > Now is this a Cygwin bug or am I doing something terribly unsupported? Volume serial numbers are supposed to be unique... At least within one system installation. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Sunday, April 5, 2015 02:47:47 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple