symtomnt
Bash script to take all symlink (on windows docker shared folders) and creeate mounted drives
SYMLINK 2 MOUNT v1.0 May 2nd 2016 by Malek Nasser
Bash script to search for all symlinks and replace with dirs + suffix then mount binds the symlink location
This is specifily to deal with Docker on Windows and its problem with symlinks on host/containers shared drives https://forums.docker.com/t/symlinks-on-shared-volumes-not-supported/9288
Its hopefully something that will not be needed in the future but this may still be useful
At the moment this just deals with Dirs but could be made to work with actual files in which case instead of making a dir and mounting it would simply copy the file
THe way this works is by searching out all symlinks the docker/vm combo has broken, finding out where they are pointing and making a new dir + suffix then simply mount binding the location
The reason I chose this method instead of
- Simply copying the dirs and
- Using the same name as the symlink
is that it does not actually change anything that
gitcan see However it will mean you need code to trigger when you are in symlink mode and mount mode... adjusting name slightly in each case
As the links are broken instead of finding symlinks with find . -type l | while read -r filename ; do we have to use <win/docker> egrep -lir "(!<symlink>)" . | while read -r filename ; do
Also instead of simply using readfile to get location of the symlink We have to use a convoluted method os reading the file, wiping the text wiping any junk windows crap etc
ALso when running the docker container you will have to run with --privileged
docker run --name %NAME% -it --privileged -v %%localdir%%:%%linkdir%% %%imagename%%
OPTIONS
./symtomnt.sh # Makes all the dirs and mounts ./symtomnt.sh remove # Removes all the created dirs