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Re: BUG: umount / && mount d:/ / doesn't work.


At 06:56 AM 8/28/98 -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>I've just found that in order to change the root directory to
>something other than c:\ that I must use regedt32 and modify the key
>value.
>
>I found this bug when trying to explain the process to someone else. 
>I modified my mounted root directory with `umount / && mount d:/ /'
>and found that it did the umount and immediately pointed the / to c:
>so that when it executed the mount command mount complained about a
>`busy device'.  I tried this sequence also under MSDOS with nothing
>else running and got the same results.
>
>This used to work in b18, so if I were looking for the problem (which
>I won't be) I would look at the code that changed for the addition of
>the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry entry.
>
>==
>-        \\||//
>---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o----
>--earnie_boyd@yahoo.com--
>------ooo0O--O0ooo-------
>
>

Works for me on NT.  Are you sure you tried this under cygwin bash?  It
will work exactly as you described if not.


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