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Re: mount/umount from commandline...
- To: mh at mike dot franken dot de (Michael Hirmke)
- Subject: Re: mount/umount from commandline...
- From: tkollar at anduin dot lerc dot nasa dot gov (Tad Kollar)
- Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 09:38:35 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: tkollar at lerc dot nasa dot gov
> [...]
> C:\>>> umount /
> C:\>>> mount C:/temp /
> >>mount failed: Device or resource busy
> >
> >Don't know, but this works perfectly for me, even with a bash running in
> >a second window.
>
> No I have to followup my own answer: It didn't work *even* with a bash
> running in a second window, it worked *because* of this bash.
> Obviously with this bash the cygwin layer was present in memory.
>
> If no cygwin process is running, it is not possible to remount /, as
> others already have stated and explained.
You could always do a command-line regedit with a previously exported
registry tree (i.e. 'regedit mounts.reg'. I'll attach one to this message).
The only problem is that it pops up a little dialog box to tell you it
did it. Probably someone on here knows of a utility that doesn't involve
the gui at all...
-Tad
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REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\00]
"native"="f:\\USERS"
"unix"="/u"
"fbinary"=dword:00000001
"fsilent"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\01]
"native"="\\\\.\\tape1:"
"unix"="/dev/st1"
"fbinary"=dword:00000000
"fsilent"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\02]
"native"="\\\\.\\tape0:"
"unix"="/dev/st0"
"fbinary"=dword:00000000
"fsilent"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\03]
"native"="\\\\.\\b:"
"unix"="/dev/fd1"
"fbinary"=dword:00000000
"fsilent"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\04]
"native"="\\\\.\\a:"
"unix"="/dev/fd0"
"fbinary"=dword:00000000
"fsilent"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\05]
"native"="F:\\CygRoot"
"unix"="/"
"fbinary"=dword:00000001
"fsilent"=dword:00000000