Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:07:24 -0500 From: Mike To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Why umount -A is a really bad idea Message-ID: <20040825210724.GG29527@mikee.ath.cx> References: <412CFBCB DOT 3040808 AT breame DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <412CFBCB.3040808@breame.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The Math Forum X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/