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Re: Changing the location of the / mount
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Changing the location of the / mount
- From: Vladimir belkin <belkin at minas dot rosmail dot com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 11:09:26 +0400
At 00:04 24.07.97 -0400, you wrote:
>I looked in the FAQ under the section for mounting drives, but I can't
>figure out how to change where the root mount points to. For example, I
>want to do something like:
>
>mount d:/cygwin32/Root/ /
>
>So that the root directory points to d:\cygwin32\Root\
>
>Unfortunately, it says:
>
>mount failed: Device or resource busy.
>
>This happens both inside and outside of bash. Anyone know how to do this?
You can use "mount" command without arguments to see the list of
mounted pathes and "umount" command to umount the old root path.
Regards,
vladimir.belkin@usa.net
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