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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 11:15:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
Subject: Re: How to change "/" from textmode to binmode?
To: Richard Stanton <stanton AT haas DOT berkeley DOT edu>,
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--- Richard Stanton <stanton AT haas DOT berkeley DOT edu> wrote:
> Following up on the exchange below, I find I can't change / back from text
> to binmode, mainly because I can't unmount it, even though umount doesn't
> complain:
> 
> c:\>umount /
> 
> c:\>mount
> Device              Directory           Type         Flags
> c:\cygnus\usr       /usr                user         binmode
> c:\cygnus\bin       /usr/bin            user         binmode
> c:\cygnus\lib       /usr/lib            user         binmode
> \\.\tape0:          /dev/st0            user         textmode
> \\.\tape1:          /dev/st1            user         textmode
> \\.\a:              /dev/fd0            user         textmode
> \\.\b:              /dev/fd1            user         textmode
> C:                  /                   user         textmode
> 
> c:\>
> 
> How can I change / from textmode back to binmode if I want to do so?
> 

Gee, I haven't seen this discussed for months/years.  The reason that it
appears you can't umount / is simple.  The initialization of the Cygwin1.dll
will create the / directory mount if it doesn't exist.  You actually do remove
the entry for / with the umount; however, when you do mount to check to see if
it's gone it gets added back during the initialization.  This has been resolved
by today's version of mount which uses a -f switch to replace the existing
entry.  I.E.: mount -f -b c:/ / would add make c:/ the root with binary mode
processing as the default.

Cheers,

=====
---
   Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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