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Re: request: change mount behaviour
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- To: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb at nyckelpiga dot de>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 06:46:27 -0500
- Subject: Re: request: change mount behaviour
- References: <1878021684.20011207112850@familiehaase.de>
"Gerrit P. Haase" wrote:
>
> Hallo,
>
> I am sure that this was discussed, I didn't searched the archives, but
> I want to make this request (again if it is so):
>
> Change the default mount behaviour to create binmode user mounts
> if called without options.
> Example:
> $ mount C:/some/drive /mydrive
> should create a binmode user mount vs textmode user mount as it is now.
> The flag -b isn't needed then and could be substituted with -t to force
> mount to create textmode mounts.
>
> So we will get less 'accidently' created textmode mounts which leads to
> less questions about this issue on the list (I hope so).
>
IMO, this change is needed to match the setup default.
Earnie.
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