Re: [Mingw-users] Portable MSYS ?

[LRN <lr...@gm...>]

On 08.05.2011 23:34, Earnie wrote:
> stn021 wrote:
>> It appears the the contents of the files in \etc are NOT important.
>> My \etc\fstab always contains the line "D:\MinGW\   /mingw".
>> Yet I can plug the USB-stick anywhere with different drive-letters and/or
>> copy msys+etc to different drives (tried C:, D:, F:, G:) and it always
>> works. No modifications necessary. Very nice :-)
>>
> Well /etc/fstab is the WINDOWS to POSIX directory mapper.  This is the
> file that the MSYS thread watching /etc cares about so that when you
> change the file the mount table is refreshed.  So if D:\MinGW is
> available then no matter where MSYS exists, /mingw will point to
> D:\MinGW.  I D:\MinGW doesn't exist you will get an error during the
> access of /mingw.
You can make a batch file or a script that fills /etc/fstab with correct 
paths (since the letter of the USB drive is generally not known until 
you plug it) before running msys. You can even make a shell script do 
that, and then call `mount -a' in Msys to mount new directories.