Or, perhaps, a better solution would be to implement a mount table a la
Unix, as CGF has been advocating for years. Any takers?
Igor
P.S. <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks.
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Doctor Bill wrote:
> It seems like there is endless confusions with cygwin mount's because
> the name of the command is the same as the Unix mount command, and
> some of the command line options are similar. Has anyone given
> serious consideration to renaming the command to something like,
> cygmount?
> Bill
>
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:48:38 +0200, Reini Urban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Igor Pechtchanski schrieb:
> > > On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Mike wrote:
> > >>On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Colin JN Breame wrote:
> > >>>I tried this once, just to see what would happen. I then spent the
> > >>>next hour restoring the mount points. I've learnt a valuable
> > >>>lesson...
> > >>
> > >>Why would a 'mount -a' not work after your 'umount -a' to restore the
> > >>mounts?
> > >>
> > >>Mike
> > >
> > > Because Cygwin's mounts aren't the same as Unix mounts. The mount and
> > > umount commands on Cygwin modify the mount table directly, so that a
> > > umount really is permanent. However (and this concerns the OP, too), you
> > > can save the mount table as the output of "mount -m", which you can later
> > > use to restore the mounts.
> >
> > not really.
> > I used to do that quite often, but since /bin and /usr/bin are not known
> > to cygwin anymore after umount -a (and not in the path) I came with this
> > workaround.
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > # save mounts
> > BIN=`cygpath -w /bin | sed 's|\\\\|/|g'`
> > mount -m | sed "s|^mount|$BIN/mount|" | tee savemounts
> > umount -a
> >
> > # nano or $EDITOR will not work now to fix savemounts!
> >
> > # restore
> > .. savemounts
> >
> > it will look like "f:/cygnus/bin/mount" now. This will be found, on NT
> > at least.
> >
> >
> > > For those unfortunate enough to have done a "umount -a" without saving the
> > > mounts via "mount -m", the minimum necessary mounts for Cygwin to work are
> > >
> > > mount -sbc /cygdrive
> > > mount -fsb c:/cygwin /
> > > mount -fsb c:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin
> > > mount -fsb c:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib
> > >
> > > (that is provided that you installed Cygwin in c:/cygwin).
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