gms5002 wrote:
Hi - I am having a problem getting mount to work in cygwin. Here is what I
am trying to do:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/test
$ pwd
/home/Greg/test
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/test
$ mkdir foo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/test
$ mkdir bar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/test
$ vi bar/test
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/test
$ ls -l bar
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 Greg None 0 Sep 3 23:48 test
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/test
$ mount bar foo
mount: foo: Invalid argument
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/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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