Changing the location of the / mount

Vladimir belkin belkin@minas.rosmail.com
Thu Jul 24 00:09:00 GMT 1997


At 00:04 24.07.97 -0400, you wrote:
>I looked in the FAQ under the section for mounting drives, but I can't
>figure out how to change where the root mount points to. For example, I
>want to do something like:
>
>mount d:/cygwin32/Root/ /
>
>So that the root directory points to d:\cygwin32\Root\
>
>Unfortunately, it says:
>
>mount failed: Device or resource busy.
>
>This happens both inside and outside of bash. Anyone know how to do this?

 You can use "mount" command without arguments to see the list of
mounted pathes and "umount" command to umount the old root path.

Regards,

   vladimir.belkin@usa.net



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