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Subject: Re: How to activate new fstab mount points under 1.7?
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On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 09:33:20PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote:
>Having read:
>http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table
>
>I'm still at a loss how to activate newly added mount points
>from fstab?
>
>The standard Unix paradigm would be mount -a or mount <target>
>but none of these work. The only way I've found is to restart
>the cygwin prompt which is obviously not ideal.
>
>Any I missing something or has this functionality just been
>overlooked?

Overlooked == not implemented.

cgf

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