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Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 14:38:41 -0400
From: Paul Berrevoets <paul AT swi DOT com>
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To: Richard Stanton <stanton AT haas DOT berkeley DOT edu>
CC: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: My mount table has gone!
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Do you have a cygwin application installed as a service that starts as a user
other than yourself? If you do, then the cygwin DLL will initialize the mount
table with the settings for that user.
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Regards,
Paul

Richard Stanton wrote:

> On more piece of information. If I use "mount -s" to put everything into the
> system registry, my mounts survive a reboot. Is this supposed to happen (the
> loss of user defined mounts?)
>
> Richard Stanton
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Richard Stanton [mailto:stanton AT haas DOT berkeley DOT edu]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 10:43 AM
> > To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> > Subject: RE: My mount table has gone!
> >
> >
> > I just tried an experiment:
> >
> > 1) Use command "mount -b c:\cygnus\bin /usr/bin". I now have an
> > extra entry in my mount table. Good.
> >
> > 2) Reboot.
> >
> > I'm back to just the root directory in the mount table.
> >
> > What am I missing? This isn't good.
> >
> > Richard Stanton
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Richard Stanton [mailto:stanton AT haas DOT berkeley DOT edu]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 10:33 AM
> > > To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> > > Subject: My mount table has gone!
> > >
> > >
> > > I just tried to compile a C file using gcc, only to be told that
> > > stdio.h (plus others) could not be found. This seemed odd, as it
> > > was all working fine yesterday.
> > >
> > > I typed "mount", and saw to my dismay that the only entry in the
> > > mount table is now:
> > >
> > > [c:\]mount
> > > Device              Directory           Type         Flags
> > > C:                  /                   user         textmode
> > >
> > > Everything else has gone. I assume this happened when I rebooted
> > > yesterday afternoon, but it's not thrilling...
> > >
> > > Any idea what might have happened, or how to stop it happening again?
> > >
> > > Richard Stanton
> > >
>
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