Re: Cant' get <mount> command to work...

["Dave Arnold" <avr_fan at nettaxi dot com>]

Thanks Jonas,

I'm curious, what purpose would the mount command provide that is different
from a linked directory?  Also, I never could understand the difference
between a 'hard' and 'soft' link.  Could you help me get a slightly more
clear picture of the difference of these 3?

thanks alot,
/dAVe

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonas Jensen <bones0_list@hotmail.com>
To: Dave Arnold <avr_fan@hotmail.com>; Cygwin list
<cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Date: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: Cant' get <mount> command to work...


>The backslash is interpreted as an escape character, so you either have to
type
>double backslashes or a regular slash. This should work:
>
>mount d:/ /d
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dave Arnold" <avr_fan@nettaxi.com>
>To: <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
>Cc: "mail and news" <avr_fan@mailandnews.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 12:48 AM
>Subject: Cant' get <mount> command to work...
>
>
>> can anyone tell me how to mount my d:\ or e:\ drives under
>> my root directory /  ?
>>
>> I've seen examples of how to do this...I believe it's called
>> and 'identity' mount.
>>
>> I tried these ways but
>>
>> mount d:\  /d
>> mount d:\ /cygdrive/d
>>
>> and also with different combinations of flags in other attempts
>> like -f -s -b -t -u
>>
>> Every time the usage instructions for mount are displayed and then
>> when I view the mount table, nothing has changed.
>>
>> I Just see /usr/bin  /usr/lib and /
>>
>> Strange to me though is the fact that I simply did a cd d:
>> and 'pwd' showed  /cygdrive/d
>>
>> I could do this for any of the drives on my computer e: f: g: h:
>> each seen with pwd as /cygdrive/<drive letter>
>>
>> Why is this? Does it mean that there's no need to perform a mount?
>> Why do I need mount then?  I would like be able to just do a cd /d
>> or cd /e from the bash.exe$ prompt.
>>
>> If I want directories to appear under my root /  or /usr then I should
>> just use a hard link?
>>
>> I thought mount was to make other drives/devices appear as subdirectories
>> of a mount point.  Could it be that all of my drives are on the same hard
>> disk
>> device? They are just separate partitions on the same disk.
>>
>> thanks,
>> /dAVe
>>
>>
>>
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