Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <405CAE450410D311B26C0050047326DC1923AB@amberex01.ambernetworks.com> From: Prakash Dhavali To: "'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'" , Prakash Dhavali Cc: "'cgf AT cygnus DOT com'" Subject: RE: How do I UNMOUNT '/' mount point? Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 14:02:57 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Thanks for your responses, but here are my comments on the CygWin implementation. I think users SHOULD be able to install the cygwin as a TOOLKIT and NOT as a UNIX OS wrapper around win32. I think that some of the users like me may want CygWin Toolkit with standalone unix utilities and applications. I know CygWin is sold as a UNIX/LINUX environment to customers, but I would have appreciated if there was a CygWin Toolkit(maybe similar to MKS toolkit) as well. Hard mounting C:/ to / is a deviation from default NT behaviour. I think ALL the cygwin tools and utilities must have recognised some environment variables(e.g CYGWIN_ROOT_DIR) to mean $CYGWIN_ROOT_DIR as the root and not C:/. In my case this deviation breaks my application(s). You may ask why I bought CygWin in the first place., I just wanted the Unix Utilities in my NT environment. What do other users on this list feel about the above topic? Thanks again Prakash Dhavali -----Original Message----- From: Chris Faylor [mailto:cgf AT cygnus DOT com] Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 6:51 AM To: Prakash Dhavali Cc: 'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com' Subject: Re: How do I UNMOUNT '/' mount point? On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 02:05:33AM -0800, Prakash Dhavali wrote: >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) A couple of people have replied to this, showing how you can umount /, but I wanted to point out that what you want to do isn't possible. There is no way to permanently umount / as cygwin always creates a root partition if one is not found in the mount table. There is also no way to have cygwin default to the current drive when referencing /. It will always default to a specific directory on a specific drive, just like UNIX. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com