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Re: interesting behavior
- To: Eric Christopher <echristo at cygnus dot com>, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: interesting behavior
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 07:11:54 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: cgf at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
--- Eric Christopher <echristo@cygnus.com> wrote:
> Okay. Here's a new one.
>
> I've got a directory structure / like this:
>
> bin contrib etc home <few other things>
>
> I decide to mount contrib to where it actually is:
>
> 'mount g:\cygwin\contrib /contrib'
>
Umm... You're executing the command from bash. The \ is used for character
quoting so you end up with g:cygwincontrib as the source directory. Just check
the registry entry. From bash you could use `mount g:/cygwin/contrib /contrib'
instead.
> (this didn't acutally do anything)
>
It won't actually change anything when you get it correct either since
g:\cygwin is mounted as /. It might even cause Cygwin to be slower since it
adds to the hashing levels.
> now ls / errors out with contrib not found, though g:\cygwin\contrib
> really is there.
>
That is because it can't find g:cygwincontrib as a directory.
> Any explainations? (Other than doctor it hurts when I do this! Don't do
> that. *grin*)
>
>
I think Chris must have been executing mount from DOS. ;^).
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