Re: Vanishing mounts

[Steve Coleman <Steve dot Coleman at jhuapl dot edu>]

Hi,

I have been having the "vanishing mounts" problem for some time and had
just learned to live with it since I only rebooted the machine (erasing
the mounts) to load the latest snapshot dll every few weeks. I had just
used a script to do the remounts until now.

After seeing that I was not the only one with this problem I decided to
investigate the problem so that others may have a solution as well. I
found that somehow my registry entry:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2]
was completely empty! I am not sure when or how this happened since I
don't run auditing on my development workstation.

What I did to fix this was to mount all directories the way I like it,
use regedit.exe to export the branch:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2]
to a *.reg file, edited the file to change all occurances of
HKEY_CURRENT_USER to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE then used Windows Explorer
(double click on the *.reg file) to reload the entries. After rebooting
the machine and starting a new shell I found that my entries were indeed
still there.

I hope that this will solve others peoples problems as well.

P.S. - Does anybody know of a automated way to copy the mount points
from current user to local machine in a single command? If not I may
look into it. :)

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