X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 11:01:18 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Using mount in [1.7] from a Windows command prompt Message-ID: <20100402150118.GC7286@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4BB601AF.30909@bonhard.uklinux.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BB601AF.30909@bonhard.uklinux.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 03:39:43PM +0100, Fergus wrote: >In [1.5] I can use mount from a Windows command prompt: > >C:\> d:\bin\mount c:/tmp /tmp >C:\> d:\bin\mount >c:\tmp on /tmp type system (binmode) > >In [1.7] I want to be able to do the same thing but >C:\> m:\bin\mount c:/tmp /tmp >achieves nothing. > >Is there a syntax that will achieve this for me? The -f option does not >make any difference. Thank you. No, you need to modify /etc/fstab if you want a permanent mount. Either that or make sure that a cygwin process is always running. That will preserve the mount table until it exits. cgf -- 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