Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <405CAE450410D311B26C0050047326DC1923A9@amberex01.ambernetworks.com> From: Prakash Dhavali To: "'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'" Subject: How do I UNMOUNT '/' mount point? Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 02:05:33 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi Cygwin users, I DO NOT want cygwin to mount anything on my NT workstation as /. Currently when I run mount, it shows me following mount which I just AM NOT ABLE TO REMOVE IT ( I want to use '/' to refer to the current driver letter inside some of my applications) C:\CYGWIN\etc>mount Device Directory Type Flags C: / user textmode C:\CYGWIN\etc> I tried using all the following options to REMOVE the above mount from C:, even then I could NOT unmount / umount --remove-all-mounts umount --remove-auto-mounts umount --remove-user-mounts umount --remove-system-mounts umount -s / PLEASE HELP. I really need to FIX this problem as soon as possible. I do not have local administrator privileges on my NT machine. I am using CygWin1.0 on NT workstation service pack 4 Thanking you in advance ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- Prakash Dhavali (prakash_dhavali@ambernetworks.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------- -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com