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Re: Help with mount..
echo 'alias cdbar="cd /cygdrive/foo/bar"' >> .bashrc
On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 07:03 -0700, gms5002 wrote:
> 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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