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Date: | Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:19:14 -0400 |
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Subject: | Re: [1.7] Question: running from a portable drive |
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Fergus wrote: > I run both [1.5] and [1.7] off portable drives plugged into whatever > host machine I'm using. <snip> > Can I write /etc/fstab more generally so that [1.7], like [1.5], can be > made to run off a portable drive without needing to specify (or even > know) the driveletter allocated by the host to the portable drive? I do the exact same thing, much to the consternation of others on the list. I ended up with a batch file to start Cygwin that figures out which drive its running on and then it writes out a custom /etc/fstab based on that drive letter. It's certainly not the most elegant way of doing things, but it works. Ralph -- 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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