Using mount in [1.7] from a Windows command prompt

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 03:39:43PM +0100, Fergus wrote:
>In [1.5] I can use mount from a Windows command prompt:
>
>C:\> d:\bin\mount c:/tmp /tmp
>C:\> d:\bin\mount
>c:\tmp on /tmp type system (binmode)
>
>In [1.7] I want to be able to do the same thing but
>C:\> m:\bin\mount c:/tmp /tmp
>achieves nothing.
>
>Is there a syntax that will achieve this for me? The -f option does not 
>make any difference. Thank you.

No, you need to modify /etc/fstab if you want a permanent mount.  Either
that or make sure that a cygwin process is always running.  That will
preserve the mount table until it exits.

cgf

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