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RE: Mount point not visible in ls
- From: Mellman Thomas <Thomas dot Mellman at icn dot siemens dot de>
- To: "'Conrad Scott'" <Conrad dot Scott at dsl dot pipex dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 16:30:01 +0200
- Subject: RE: Mount point not visible in ls
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Conrad Scott [mailto:Conrad.Scott@dsl.pipex.com]
>>Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 5:54 PM
>>To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>>Subject: Mount point not visible in ls
>>
>>
>>I'm befuddled and I can't find anything on any of the cygwin
>>mailing lists
>>to help me, so I hope someone here can spot my mistake.
>>
>>My system has been working fine for a long time but just
>>recently I noticed
>>that when I do an `ls' of `/usr' or `echo /usr/*', `/usr/bin'
>>doesn't show
>>up. It's there (if I do, for example, `ls -d /usr/bin') but
>>in some way
>>invisible. Strangely `/usr/lib' is shows up fine, despite its mount
>>information being identical to that for `/usr/bin'
It seems that you're mount point /usr/bin doesn't exist.
That's not a bug, it's a feature.
Try umounting and checking if the mount points exist: likely
/usr/lib does and /usr/bin doesn't, and when you mount them, the
mount for /usr/bin gives you a warning.
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