Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 09:50:55 -0500 To: Prakash Dhavali Cc: "'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'" Subject: Re: How do I UNMOUNT '/' mount point? Message-ID: <19991116095055.A19767@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: Prakash Dhavali , "'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'" References: <405CAE450410D311B26C0050047326DC1923A9@amberex01.ambernetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <405CAE450410D311B26C0050047326DC1923A9@amberex01.ambernetworks.com>; from Prakash Dhavali on Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 02:05:33AM -0800 On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 02:05:33AM -0800, Prakash Dhavali wrote: >Hi Cygwin users, > >I DO NOT want cygwin to mount anything on my NT workstation as /. >Currently when I run mount, it shows me following mount which I just AM >NOT ABLE TO REMOVE IT ( I want to use '/' to refer to the current >driver letter inside some of my applications) A couple of people have replied to this, showing how you can umount /, but I wanted to point out that what you want to do isn't possible. There is no way to permanently umount / as cygwin always creates a root partition if one is not found in the mount table. There is also no way to have cygwin default to the current drive when referencing /. It will always default to a specific directory on a specific drive, just like UNIX. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com