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From: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria AT Salira DOT com>
Subject: Re: Backing up cygwin
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 12:22:21 -0700
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Shankar Unni wrote:

> Rolf Campbell wrote:
>
>> The reason why the mount table cannot be stored in a file is: where 
>> would this file be located?
>
> In the same directory as cygwin1.dll, of course. Or a path relative to 
> it. That's easy to find, and doesn't have to be written in portable 
> POSIX-y code - stuff at that level in cygwin1.dll is pretty much all 
> native Windows code anyway.
>
> The real problem is that the danger of inadvertent corruption of the 
> mount table is greatly increased if it's a naked text file like that..
>
> Anyway, pointless discussion. It's also quite easy to dump out the 
> entire registry subset for "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus 
> Solutions\Cygwin", and restore that as needed.

Or crontab a mont -m > /etc/mnttab.



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