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Re: creating persistance mounts


Paul McFerrin wrote:
> When I first generated my 1.7 cygwin system, it created the System mount
> points for me.  In looking the documentations for mount, I can not find
> the necessary info to create a persistance system mount.  Anything I
> mount get taged as a "user" mount.  What's the secret.  I use the "-s"
> options, it gets flagged as invalid arg.  I tried:
>    mount -f -s R: /r      DOESN'T WORK
>    mount -f -o -s R: /r   DOESN'T WORK
>    mount -f -o --system R: /r   SAME
>    mount -f --system R: /r   SAME
>    mount -f R: /r   WORKS, except as "user"
> 
> The documentation does not help much (man pages & web page).  Can
> someone tell me how to mount a FS as "system"?

I think you need to look at /etc/fstab as mentioned in the Cygwin 1.7
User's Guide:

http://www.cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames

Specifically, check out the Cygwin Mount Table section.

-Jeremy

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