Re: Misleading warning from mount?

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Oct  7 16:57, luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au wrote:
>     bash-2.05b$ mount c:/temp/mnt/tmp /tmp
>     mount: warning - /tmp does not exist.
> 
> Maybe I still misunderstand.  In what sense does /tmp not exist?

Under Unix, the directory in which you mount a partition must
exist:

  $ mount /dev/hda /nirvana
  mount: /nirvana: No such file or directory

or a similar message.  From the perspective of Cygwin's mount, there's
no /tmp directory at the moment you use it to mount c:\temp\mnt\tmp
into it.  That's all.  In contrast to Unix, that's not breaking the
mount, so you only get a warning.  Use mount's -f option to suppress
the warning message.

Cornina

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