Help understanding why a mount command is not working and how to fix it

[Eliot Moss]

On 9/9/2024 4:39 PM, René Berber via Cygwin wrote:
> On 9/9/2024 12:23 PM, Eliot Moss via Cygwin wrote:
> 
>> Dear Cygwiners --
>>
>> For convenience, I would like to mount my OneDrive folder under / cygdrive/o.
>>
>> I put this line in my /etc/fstab:
>>
>> c:/Users/Eliot\040Moss/OneDrive /cygdrive/o ntfs binary,noacl,posix=0,user 0 0
>>
>> However, /cygdrive/o is not created.  Manually doing this:
>>
>>    mount -obinary,noacl,posix=0,user "/c/Users/Eliot Moss/OneDrive" /foo
>>
>> results in this output if /foo does not exist:
>>
>> mount: warning - /foo does not exist.
>> mount: /foo: Invalid argument
> 
> Just tested this, I get the warning and /foo is created anyway and the directory is mounted there.
> 
> I do not get the second line (invalid agument).
> 
> Check if mount did its job.
> 
> I'm using ...
> 
> $ mount -V
> mount (cygwin) 3.5.4
> Mount filesystem utility
> 
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-10.0-22631 XPS-8930 3.5.4-1.x86_64 2024-08-25 16:52 UTC x86_64 Cygwin
> 
>>
>> and this output if I do mkdir /foo first:
>>
>> mount: /foo: Invalid argument
>>
>> Using \040 instead of the space for the quoted command line argument
>> gives the same behavior.
>>
>> Hints on how to make this mount work?
>>
>> Best wishes - Eliot Moss
>>
> 
> 

I ended up creating a binding from O: to this network drive:

	\\localhost\c$\users\Eliot Moss\OneDrive

Then drive o appeared in cygdrive.  It was the Windows part of this that was
obscure.  (Seems strange to set up a *network* drive to a local file system.)

Best - Eliot