[Mingw-users] Mounting usb-drives without closing msys-processes

[<yu...@gm...>]

Hello!

I use MSYS for doing my daily rsync-based backup to an external hard
drive. However, I cannot find a method for mounting a drive-letter in
msys, that did not exist before msys was started. Having several
shells open with different working directories, it is incovenient,
that I have to close all MSYS-Shells before the new letter can be
recognized.

Does some method exist to force rescanning the drive letters?

A similiar issue was discussed in a msys-git mailing list ending
without solution. (
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.msysgit/13133 )

kind regards, Yu