[1.7] mount -c is lost after reboot

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Jun 25 11:28:00 GMT 2009


On Jun 24 15:38, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 03:35:35PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 02:11:32PM -0400, Edward Lam wrote:
> >>Whenever I do a "mount -c /" in cygwin 1.7, it seems to revert back to 
> >>/cygdrive after rebooting on Windows XP x64. Any ideas on how to have 
> >>the mount point change persist through reboots?
> >
> >You need to modify /etc/fstab.  That's a fundamental difference in Cygwin
> >1.5.
>  1.7.

And, that's funny, it's even documented!

http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table
http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mount


Corinna

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