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Peculiar `mount' behavior
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Peculiar `mount' behavior
- From: vischne at ibm dot net
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 05:16:52 GMT
If you use the Unix syntax for mount, then adding a drive letter to
the mount table goes like this:
mount /dev/hda5 d:
which makes the first drive extended partition d: to cygwin. After
doing this, typing `cd d:' under bash$ does what you think it does.
Only problem is that, even though this is standard usage, `make' doesn't
quite know what to do with the `//d/' things that result. `make' only
understands `/dev/hda5'. So, you have to
umount d:
mount d: /dev/hda5
which is really absurd from a Unix standpoint, and then `make' works.
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