mount fails

Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Thu Dec 13 09:36:00 GMT 2001


I know you already have your answer but for the record, this is the
wrong list for this post.  This is a cygwin@cygwin.com type of post. 
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Thanks,
Earnie.

Michael Salmon wrote:
> 
> hi folks,
> I'm trying to mount a drive as textmode rather then the automatic
> binmode.  I know mount for linux and freebsd but it's not acting
> AFAICT correctly.
> This is what I'm trying and the error I get
> 
> mount -t -s c:\cygwin /
> mount: /: Invalid argument
> 
> I tried escaping and quoting the / in case windows dislikes /, even
> though I'm using the cygwin bash. Didn't work. Basically I want
> to edit in vim files I checkout with Sourcesafe.
> 
> If anyone knows how to make vim read windows files , that would also
> solve my problem - I'm looking into that also..
> 
> Also, after I couldnt get the drive mounted as textmode or binmode
> I decided a reboot was in order, hoping it would at least return
> to it's default binmode. After a reboot the drive does not get remounted
> and now things are generally messed up.
> 
> cheers,
> ms-

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