Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/1999/01/24/19:02:55
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 07:30:22PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>At 12:23 PM 1/24/99 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 10:12:24AM -0500, Sergey Okhapkin wrote:
>>>Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>>>> I assume there WILL BE a clear and convenient way to change the mode
>>>> after the default automount has taken place.
>>
>>I'm not quite sure what is being asked for here. If you have a default
>>the only way to override it is to do something specific like mount the
>>directory.
>
>The user will find him/herself with an automounted directory, say z: to
>/cygdrive/z with text mode. What is the simple specific rule to change
>the mode to binary?
mount -b -f z: /cygdrive/z
>What Sergey suggested is perfect. It would be nice if "mount -b z:
>/cygdrive/z" was doing the job as well instead of generating Device or
>resource busy (recognizing that only the mode has changed).
>Less nice ways are to have the user umount then mount again, or to have
>to use the force flag.
I'm not sure why the addition of a '-f' is less nice but that's the
plan so far. The '-f' option can be viewed as analogous to linux's
-o remount option. Both are necessary when changing the state of
a mounted partition.
>>>What about something like "mount -b /", "mount -t /dev/fd0"? Note
>>>missing win32path argument - this case mount command must just change a
>>>type of an existing mount point.
>>
>>mount -t \\.\a: /dev/fd0
>>
>>should work fine. Assuming I've got the \\ syntax right.
>>
>Today it would generate Device or resource busy
Oops. I missed the point entirely. Sorry, Sergey.
cgf
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