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FW: Help with mount..
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 10:40:26 +0100
- Subject: FW: Help with mount..
On 04 September 2007 06:45, 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:
>> 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:
> mount [OPTION] [<win32path> <posixpath>]
>
> but it doesn't give any specifics of what a win32path is supposed to be
It's a win32 (i.e. windows) path - i.e. a standard dos-style path beginning
with a drive letter and a colon. The user guide has more docs than the man
page:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mount
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table
cheers,
DaveK
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