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From: "Andre Oliveira da Costa" <costa AT cade DOT com DOT br>
To: "Prakash Dhavali" <PrakashD AT ambernetworks DOT com>,
        <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: RE: How do I UNMOUNT '/' mount point?
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 10:44:11 -0200
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I also had to umount / to remount it in binary mode once, to fix an odd
behavior with RCS. All I had to do was

umount /
[path-to-mount.exe]/mount -b c: /

(note that, after umounting /, you have to use the path to mount.exe so that
it can be found)

cygwin complained about '/' not existing when I tried the remount, but it
_did_ mount the drive as supposed. So, you should be able to umount / but,
as for mounting it with another name, you'll probably have to fix the PATH
environment variable so that the binaries can be found. Anyways, you'll
probably need /bin, /tmp, /usr and /etc directories (I'm not sure, though --
any words from the gurus? ;) ).

HTH,

Regards,

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André Oliveira da Costa
(costa AT cade DOT com DOT br)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com]On Behalf Of Prakash Dhavali
> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 8:06 AM
> To: 'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'
> Subject: How do I UNMOUNT '/' mount point?
>
>
> 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 AT ambernetworks DOT com)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> -------------------------------
>
>
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