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From: dnewbold AT ivs DOT com (Dennis Newbold)
Subject: Re: Where to install gnu-win32...
28 Aug 1998 21:24:55 -0700 :
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To: Charles G Waldman <cgw AT pgt DOT com>
Cc: ALI RON <ALIR AT STELNJ DOT COM>,
"'GNU-win32 Mailing List'" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>,
"'earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com'" <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>


Charles G Waldman wrote:

> You can't fix the mount tables (AFAIK) from within "bash" because the
> filesystems are already mounted...

On the contrary.  I was in the same situation.  And what I did was:

     umount /
     mount //D /

I was a little surprised that I could umount /, but it seemed to work OK.

Dennis
dnewbold AT ivs DOT com

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