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Mount A Drive
- From: David Starks-Browning <starksb at ebi dot ac dot uk>
- To: "Robert Mark Bram" <relaxedrob at optushome dot com dot au>
- Cc: "Cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 14:35:14 +0100
- Subject: Mount A Drive
- References: <AHENJAAPGAHKCFPLDPOJCEFBCGAA.relaxedrob@optushome.com.au>
On Monday 27 May 02, Robert Mark Bram writes:
> Howdy all!
>
> I am running Cygwin on Win 2K. I am trying to mount my A drive and I have a
> few questions.
>
> First, what is wrong with this command:
> mount A:\ /a
> I received the usage message in response:
> mount: not enough arguments
> Usage: mount [OPTION] [<win32path> <posixpath>]
The backslash '\' is an escape character to the shell. It prevents
the shell from interpreting the space as a word separator. So mount
thinks it has one argument rather than two.
It's been a long time since I used mount, but
mount A:\\ /a
should do what you expected, and possibly
mount A: /a
and
mount A:/ /a
will also work.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
David
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