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Re: umount doesn't umount


On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 01:11:40PM -0400, David E Euresti wrote:
>Allright let's escape the colon
>
>$ mount c: /blah\:drivec
>mount: warning - /blah:drivec does not exist.
>
>$ cd /blah\:drivec
>bash: cd: /blah:drivec: No such file or directory
>
>$ cd /blah:drivec
>bash: cd: /blah:drivec: No such file or directory
>
>$ umount /blah\:drivec
>umount: /blah:drivec: Invalid argument
>
>$ umount /blah:drivec
>umount: /blah:drivec: Invalid argument
>
>$ mount
>C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
>C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
>C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
>c: on /blah:drivec type user (textmode)
>
>However unix pathnames do allow for colons and I thought the point of
>using mount is that we could use stuff that unix pathnames use like /
>that Windows can't.

Cygwin is probably interpreting the existence of a colon in the filename
as an indication that the path should be considered to be an MS-DOS
path.

cgf

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