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Re: Help with mount..
Thanks for the reply Steve. What I am actually trying to achieve here is to
be able to access a certain folder (say C:\foo\bar) by typing cd /bar at the
command prompt.
Steve Holden wrote:
>
> gms5002 wrote:
>> Hi - I am having a problem getting mount to work in cygwin. Here is what
>> I
>> am trying to do:
>>
>> Greg@CHICKEN ~/test
>> $ pwd
>> /home/Greg/test
>>
>> Greg@CHICKEN ~/test
>> $ mkdir foo
>>
>> Greg@CHICKEN ~/test
>> $ mkdir bar
>>
>> Greg@CHICKEN ~/test
>> $ vi bar/test
>>
>> Greg@CHICKEN ~/test
>> $ ls -l bar
>> total 0
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 Greg None 0 Sep 3 23:48 test
>>
>> Greg@CHICKEN ~/test
>> $ mount bar foo
>> mount: foo: Invalid argument
>>
>> Greg@CHICKEN ~/test
>> $ mount /home/Greg/test/bar/ /home/Greg/test/foo/
>> mount: /home/Greg/test/foo/: Invalid argument
>>
>>
>> any ideas?
>
> Well you could start by explaining what you think those mounts should
> have done. Are you trying for the equivalent of a loopback mount?
>
> Remember that mount is one of the utilities that differs substantially
> from its Linux/Unix counterpart. The man page starts:
>
> NAME
> mount - Display information about mounted filesystems, or
> mount a
> filesystem
>
> SYNOPSIS
> mount [OPTION] [<win32path> <posixpath>]
>
> but it doesn't give any specifics of what a win32path is supposed to be
> and whether relative paths constitute acceptable win32 paths. In
> particular the section that reads
>
> """
> Limitations: there is a hard-coded limit of 30 mount points. Also,
> although you can mount to pathnames that do not start with "/", there
> is no way to make use of such mount points.
> """
>
> should give you some clue that what you are trying to achieve should
> probably be done some way other than what you have tried so far.
>
> regards
> Steve
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