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RE: mount command
- To: cygwin users <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
- Subject: RE: mount command
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 04:08:53 -0800 (PST)
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--- Andrew Dalgleish <andrewd@axonet.com.au> wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Earnie Boyd [SMTP:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 25, 1999 2:51 PM
> > To: Richard Lyon; cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> > Subject: Re: mount command
> >
> > --- Richard Lyon <rlyon01@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> > --8<--
> > > find command that doesn't work. I even get stranger results if I
> > attempt
> > > something like mount D:/topdirectory /home. Find generates the
> > following
> > > output:
> > --8<--
> >
> > You need to use the backslash on the physical directory name. I.E.:
> >
> > mount D:\\topdirectory /home
> >
> >
> > I know from experience that it doesn't work with the forward slash.
> [Andrew Dalgleish]
> huh?
> BASH.EXE-2.02$ mkdir /foo /bar
> BASH.EXE-2.02$ mount c:/temp /foo
> BASH.EXE-2.02$ mount c:\\temp /bar
> BASH.EXE-2.02$ mount
> Device Directory Type Flags
> c:\temp /foo native text!=binary
> c:\temp /bar native text!=binary
> U: / native text=binary
> Both mounts look the same to me, and the relevant registry entries are
> the same.
> This is for cygwin B20.1 running under NT4SP3 and Win98.
> Am I missing something?
>
Oops, sorry. mount c:/temp /foo does work.
However, `mount c:\\ /c; mount /c/temp /tmp' does not.
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