On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Mike wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Colin JN Breame wrote:
>
> > I tried this once, just to see what would happen. I then spent the
> > next hour restoring the mount points. I've learnt a valuable
> > lesson...
>
> Why would a 'mount -a' not work after your 'umount -a' to restore the
> mounts?
>
> Mike
Because Cygwin's mounts aren't the same as Unix mounts. The mount and
umount commands on Cygwin modify the mount table directly, so that a
umount really is permanent. However (and this concerns the OP, too), you
can save the mount table as the output of "mount -m", which you can later
use to restore the mounts.
For those unfortunate enough to have done a "umount -a" without saving the
mounts via "mount -m", the minimum necessary mounts for Cygwin to work are
mount -sbc /cygdrive
mount -fsb c:/cygwin /
mount -fsb c:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin
mount -fsb c:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib
(that is provided that you installed Cygwin in c:/cygwin).
Igor
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