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RE: Why umount -A is a really bad idea
- From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>
- To: 'Mike' <mikee at mikee dot ath dot cx>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 17:52:09 -0400
- Subject: RE: Why umount -A is a really bad idea
At Wednesday, August 25, 2004 5:07 PM, Mike wrote:
> 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
Maybe because there is no 'mount -a' option?
However, IIRC, rerunning setup may recreate the default mount points.
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