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Re: slow share = slow scripts?


On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:20:59PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
>Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>On 05/25/2006, mwoehlke wrote:
>>>I was misremembering that Cygwin doesn't have or need a 'umount'. 
>>>Must've been thinking about something else. At any rate, I know I have 
>>>sometimes been able to re-mount drives without first unmounting them. 
>>
>>You can use the '-f' flag to force a remount without 'umount'ing first.
>>Cygwin has a 'umount' though.
>
>Ooooooh... and here I always thought '-f' was how you told it to *not* 
>mount 'noexec' (which apparently isn't documented?).

Yes, there are a whole lot of things which don't actually exist in cygwin
or in mount which are not documented.  In fact, I would hazard a guess that
there are an infinite number.

>Ok, I'm all confused.  :-)

You're confused by the man page which clearly states what '-f' and
'--force' do?  Maybe you need to stop using the computer for the day.

cgf

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