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From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject: Re: Answer to your text == binary question
22 Jan 1999 17:21:28 -0800 :
Message-ID: <19990122171841.C7554.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@cygnus.com>
References: <19990121172738 DOT B19731 AT cygnus DOT com>
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To: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT eurecom DOT fr>
Cc: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

On Fri, Jan 22, 1999, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
[...]
> I have one wish: somehow allow "umount /" and then "mount c:/xxx /"  from
> DOS (not very easy currently).

With the new mount setup, if you try to replace an existing mount, it
will fail with the traditional busy error message.  But if you add
the new force flag (-f) to mount, it will replace the existing mount
with the new one.  This should help folks out a lot I expect.

-- 
Geoffrey Noer
noer AT cygnus DOT com

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