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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 00:57:49 -0400
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Subject: Re: Can't remove erroneous mount...
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In-Reply-To: <LNBBKMIKMNGEJNEJICPHAEJOEEAA.stanton@haas.berkeley.edu>; from stanton@haas.berkeley.edu on Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 09:54:35PM -0700

On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 09:54:35PM -0700, Richard Stanton wrote:
>By accident, I just ran the command
>
>  mount -s -f -b / c:
>
>(I got the two arguments reversed).
>
>Unfortunately, there is no way to unmount this now I've created it. For
>example,
>
>c:\>umount --remove-system-mounts
>umount: c:: Invalid argument
>
>c:\>umount c:
>umount: c:: Invalid argument
>
>c:\>mount
>Device              Directory           Type         Flags
>c:\usr\local        /usr/local          user         binmode
>\\.\tape0:          /dev/st0            user         textmode
>\\.\tape1:          /dev/st1            user         textmode
>\\.\a:              /dev/fd0            user         textmode
>\\.\b:              /dev/fd1            user         textmode
>\                   c:                  system       binmode
>
>How can I get rid of the last mount listed?

umount -s \

or

umount -s \\

if you are running from bash.

cgf

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