Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 3 13:11, Brian Keener wrote: > > With my recent attempt and ultimate success at compiling a debug > > version of Cygwin - I realize I must have stumbled on the new 1.7 > > version and subsequently tripped over the new /etc/fstab. Now that I > > have all of this working I wonder if there is a way on the new fstab to > > dictate that a drive like a cdrom (my D Drive on my laptop) is > > unmountable so that when it auto mounts one that is in the drive I can > > do the correct process and unmount the drive and then mount again when > > a new cd is placed in the drive. > > I don't quite understand what you're trying to accomplish. It sounds > like you already get what you want without having to use umount/mount. > Either a CD is in the drive or not. If a CD is in the drive, you get to > it through /cygdrive/d, if there's no CD, there's no logical drive and > thus no /cygdrive/d.
Well - what I'm thinking is what I seem to recall that Unix/Linux does in that I can set up fstab to know of a mount point but not mount it automatically until I tell it too and then I can mount and unmount at will for changing the cd. In afterthought I am probably overthinking this but my initial thought followed this scenario: 1) I have a cd in the drive and I start Cygwin and Cygwin autostarts the cd or optionally I could have an entry in fstab that would tell it *not* to automount just the cd. 2) I want to change that cd to another cd so as I would in Unix to keep all the caching and such happy I unmount and then mount the new cd. 3) Then I can access it. In Unix/Linux I seem to recall the system gets upset if you remove a cd without unmount first (since it is mounted to a mountpoint which is now not the same thing) and then mount the new cd. But as I say I am probably overthinking this for the Cygwin on Windows environment - does it really care if I change cd's without a unmount and then mount? bk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
