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On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:20:59PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: >Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >>On 05/25/2006, mwoehlke wrote: >>>I was misremembering that Cygwin doesn't have or need a 'umount'. >>>Must've been thinking about something else. At any rate, I know I have >>>sometimes been able to re-mount drives without first unmounting them. >> >>You can use the '-f' flag to force a remount without 'umount'ing first. >>Cygwin has a 'umount' though. > >Ooooooh... and here I always thought '-f' was how you told it to *not* >mount 'noexec' (which apparently isn't documented?). Yes, there are a whole lot of things which don't actually exist in cygwin or in mount which are not documented. In fact, I would hazard a guess that there are an infinite number. >Ok, I'm all confused. :-) You're confused by the man page which clearly states what '-f' and '--force' do? Maybe you need to stop using the computer for the day. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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