On 20 Jan 2002 at 19:21, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Another question:
>
> >So I did this:
> >------------------------------------------------------------
> >$ ln -svdnf '/home/sorenboss/.cpan/' ~/.cpan
> >create symbolic link `/cdv/e/home/sorenboss/.cpan' to
> >`/home/sorenboss/.cpan/'
> >------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Why didn't you mount this way:
> $ mount -s -b x:/cygwin/home/sorenboss/.cpan \
> > e:/home/sorenboss/.cpan
> ?
>
> I use always mount for something like this.
Thanks. Well, it didn't occur to me to do that, is why. I have seldom mounted subdirs
to subdirs,
splicing something into the filesystem tree like that, and I think it is because I
haven't understood
mount very well, and therefore been nervous about what would happen. This is an area
of the Cygwin
documentation that could use some work, IMO.
[ a little time passes..]
Looking at it again, I am *seriously* confused about what you are suggesting. I
thought -- and I am not
claiming (and have never claimed) to thoroughly understand `mount' -- but I thought
that the last arg to
mount had to be a POSIX path?? You seem to be supplying two win32/DOS paths as args to
`mount'.
Is this good to do?
Thanks Gerrit!
Soren Andersen
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