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From: Chris Faylor <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
To: Michael König <Michael.Koenig@uni-konstanz.de>
Cc: Cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: mounting problem
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 09:42:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990801124225.A756@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990801115856.007a4830@popserver.uni-konstanz.de>

On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 11:58:56AM +0200, Michael König wrote:
>Hello,
>
>last week I had the problem that xfig was looking for some files in the
>/usr/..something... directory.
>
>Actually xfig was looking in the c:/usr/... -directory which did not exist.
>
>This morning I found out that I have to use
>
>mount e/cygnus/cygwin-b20/usr /usr to make it running (for a very short
>time). While xfig was running (and the directory was mounted) my computer
>crashed and I had to reboot it. Since this moment, whenever I try to mount,
>I get the message: 
>
>mount failed: Device or resource busy

Mounts in cygwin persist across reboot.  Once you've mounted something it
stays mounted.  To verify this, just type 'mount'.  You should see that
'e:/cygnus/cygwin-b20/usr' is mounted as '/usr'.

cgf

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From: Chris Faylor <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
To: Michael König <Michael.Koenig@uni-konstanz.de>
Cc: Cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: mounting problem
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 23:49:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990801124225.A756@cygnus.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990831234900.fi-T2RM9-_TzyKlKdcxtx_vFcO_LNH-m9EF3fYF8HUg@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990801115856.007a4830@popserver.uni-konstanz.de>

On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 11:58:56AM +0200, Michael König wrote:
>Hello,
>
>last week I had the problem that xfig was looking for some files in the
>/usr/..something... directory.
>
>Actually xfig was looking in the c:/usr/... -directory which did not exist.
>
>This morning I found out that I have to use
>
>mount e/cygnus/cygwin-b20/usr /usr to make it running (for a very short
>time). While xfig was running (and the directory was mounted) my computer
>crashed and I had to reboot it. Since this moment, whenever I try to mount,
>I get the message: 
>
>mount failed: Device or resource busy

Mounts in cygwin persist across reboot.  Once you've mounted something it
stays mounted.  To verify this, just type 'mount'.  You should see that
'e:/cygnus/cygwin-b20/usr' is mounted as '/usr'.

cgf

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  reply	other threads:[~1999-08-01  9:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-08-01  3:00 Michael König
1999-08-01  9:42 ` Chris Faylor [this message]
1999-08-31 23:49   ` Chris Faylor
1999-08-31 23:49 ` Michael König

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