Re: [Mingw-users] Portable MSYS ?

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On 09/05/11 05:14, LRN wrote:
> 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.

The place to do it is within /etc/profile, (as a conditional call out to
a support script, e.g. in /etc/profile.d/ -- no, that doesn't exist in a
current default MSYS installation, but it's trivial to add).  I've
already begun development of the appropriate implementation for use in
my own set up; I'll share it, when I've completed it.

> You can even make a shell script do that, and then call `mount -a' in
> Msys to mount new directories.

I don't recall that I provided a `mount -a' option when I wrote the
current MSYS implementation of mount, (and I see no evidence of it
within the code itself).  Indeed, such an option would be pointless,
since mounting is achieved automatically, when /etc/fstab is written.

-- 
Regards,
Keith.