From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher Faylor) Subject: Re: Answer to your text == binary question 24 Jan 1999 19:02:55 -0800 Message-ID: <19990124212803.A11808.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@cygnus.com> References: <01BE46B8 DOT DFC810B0 AT sos> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: "Pierre A. Humblet" , "cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com" 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