Warning: Dangerous mv command

[Earnie Boyd]

Be cautious of the following scenario:

Cygwin is in D:\Cygwin-1.1
I want to mount directory D:\Archive_Backup as /foo 
  (note this is the same device)
So I:
  mkdir /foo
  mount -b D:/Archive_Backup /foo

I change my mind and want /foo to be /bar so:
  mv /foo /bar

The result is that of:
  move D:\Archive_Backup D:\Cygwin-1.1\bar
  /foo is still mounted and still points to D:\Archive_Backup
  The empty mount point /foo still exists.
  ls /foo gives `ls: /foo: No such file or directory'
  ls /bar gives listing of files that exited in D:\Archive_Backup.

Cheers,

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