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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun  3 13:11, Brian Keener wrote:
> > With my recent attempt and ultimate success at compiling a debug 
> > version of Cygwin - I realize I must have stumbled on the new 1.7 
> > version and subsequently tripped over the new /etc/fstab.  Now that I 
> > have all of this working I wonder if there is a way on the new fstab to 
> > dictate that a drive like a cdrom (my D Drive on my laptop) is 
> > unmountable so that when it auto mounts one that is in the drive I can 
> > do the correct process and unmount the drive and then mount again when 
> > a new cd is placed in the drive.
> 
> I don't quite understand what you're trying to accomplish.  It sounds
> like you already get what you want without having to use umount/mount.
> Either a CD is in the drive or not.  If a CD is in the drive, you get to
> it through /cygdrive/d, if there's no CD, there's no logical drive and
> thus no /cygdrive/d.

Well - what I'm thinking is what I seem to recall that Unix/Linux does in 
that I can set up fstab to know of a mount point but not mount it 
automatically until I tell it too and then I can mount and unmount at will 
for changing the cd.

In afterthought I am probably overthinking this but my initial thought 
followed this scenario:

1) I have a cd in the drive and I start Cygwin and Cygwin autostarts the cd 
or optionally I could have an entry in fstab that would tell it *not* to 
automount just the cd.
2) I want to change that cd to another cd so as I would in Unix to keep all 
the caching and such happy I unmount and then mount the new cd.
3) Then I can access it.

In Unix/Linux I seem to recall the system gets upset if you remove a cd 
without unmount first (since it is mounted to a mountpoint which is now not 
the same thing) and then mount the new cd.

But as I say I am probably overthinking this for the Cygwin on Windows 
environment - does it really care if I change cd's without a unmount and 
then mount?

bk





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