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Re: mount oddities - user or tool?
- To: kh at wg dot icl dot co dot uk (Kevin Hughes), gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: mount oddities - user or tool?
- From: "Michael A. Benzinger" <bzinger at iname dot com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 15:37:11 -0600
Kevin,
There are two ways to resolve your problem:
mount -b d:\\devel /devel
or
mount -b d:/devel /devel
Either will work. The problem is the shell eats the backslash
as an escape character.
Mike Benzinger
At 12:40 PM 10/28/97 GMT, Kevin Hughes wrote:
>I have upgraded to the latest cygwin32.dll from Sergey Okhapkin. It solved
many
>of my little problems - hope most of the changes get into b19.
>
>I am having problems with mount. I had previously done the following
>
>mount d:\usr /usr
>mount d:\devel /devel
>
>and everything was fine - I got the following when I checked with mount
>
>d:\usr /usr
>d:\devel /devel
>
>Various people on the list have suggested that mounts should be done
binary so
>I umounted and remounted
>
>umount /devel
>mount -b d:\devel /devel
>umount /usr
>mount -b d:\usr /usr
>
>When I looked at the mount I got
>
>d:usr /usr
>d:devel /devel
>
>This meant that my system would not work - it could never find /devel
unless it
>was in /.
>
>I fixed this by a quick registry hack but what I really wanted to know is
>what I did wrong or waht the system has gor wrong?
>
>Thanks for any advice
>
>Kevin
>
>PS I am on NT/service pack 3
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