X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4A85A4C4.8020007@bopp.net> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:54:12 -0500 From: Jeremy Bopp User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: creating persistance mounts References: <4A85A341.9050705@columbus.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <4A85A341.9050705@columbus.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Paul McFerrin wrote: > When I first generated my 1.7 cygwin system, it created the System mount > points for me. In looking the documentations for mount, I can not find > the necessary info to create a persistance system mount. Anything I > mount get taged as a "user" mount. What's the secret. I use the "-s" > options, it gets flagged as invalid arg. I tried: > mount -f -s R: /r DOESN'T WORK > mount -f -o -s R: /r DOESN'T WORK > mount -f -o --system R: /r SAME > mount -f --system R: /r SAME > mount -f R: /r WORKS, except as "user" > > The documentation does not help much (man pages & web page). Can > someone tell me how to mount a FS as "system"? I think you need to look at /etc/fstab as mentioned in the Cygwin 1.7 User's Guide: http://www.cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames Specifically, check out the Cygwin Mount Table section. -Jeremy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple