From: belkin AT minas DOT rosmail DOT com (Vladimir belkin) Subject: Re: Changing the location of the / mount 24 Jul 1997 00:57:55 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970724110926.0090f210.cygnus.gnu-win32@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: belkin AT localhost X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970724000414.008f3c90@bl-mail2.corpeast.baynetwor ks.com> Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com At 00:04 24.07.97 -0400, you wrote: >I looked in the FAQ under the section for mounting drives, but I can't >figure out how to change where the root mount points to. For example, I >want to do something like: > >mount d:/cygwin32/Root/ / > >So that the root directory points to d:\cygwin32\Root\ > >Unfortunately, it says: > >mount failed: Device or resource busy. > >This happens both inside and outside of bash. Anyone know how to do this? You can use "mount" command without arguments to see the list of mounted pathes and "umount" command to umount the old root path. Regards, vladimir DOT belkin AT usa DOT net - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".