X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 10:51:36 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [1.7] Question: running from a portable drive Message-ID: <20090504085136.GD21324@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <49F82640.1000401@bonhard.uklinux.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-02-20) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Apr 29 12:35, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > My solution was to determine the drive letter at run time (when plugging > in the stick). I use the following to set up the mount table (from a > batch file): > mount -fu %~d0\cygwin / > mount -fu %~d0\cygwin/bin /usr/bin > mount -fu %~d0\cygwin/lib /usr/lib > mount -fu %temp /tmp > > In principle this should also work for 1.7 presuming that mount simply > writes to fstab instead of the registry. mount only creates mount points in memory. It does not write out permanent information, unless you redirect `mount -m' output to /etc/fstab. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/