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Re: [1.7] Question: running from a portable drive
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 10:51:36 +0200
- Subject: Re: [1.7] Question: running from a portable drive
- References: <49F82640.1000401@bonhard.uklinux.net> <gt9ah0$3gm$1@ger.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Apr 29 12:35, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> My solution was to determine the drive letter at run time (when plugging
> in the stick). I use the following to set up the mount table (from a
> batch file):
> mount -fu %~d0\cygwin /
> mount -fu %~d0\cygwin/bin /usr/bin
> mount -fu %~d0\cygwin/lib /usr/lib
> mount -fu %temp /tmp
>
> In principle this should also work for 1.7 presuming that mount simply
> writes to fstab instead of the registry.
mount only creates mount points in memory. It does not write out
permanent information, unless you redirect `mount -m' output to
/etc/fstab.
Corinna
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