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Date:	Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:38:35 -0500
To:	"John F. Davis" <davis AT skink DOT net>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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Subject:	Re: tar a filesystem outside of /cygwin
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At 01:30 PM 12/12/2000, John F. Davis wrote:
>Any particular reason why I can't mount a filesystem in /home?
>i.e., cd /home/davis
>mkdir progs
>mount c:/progs /progs
>The mount says, "mount: progs: Invalid argument

The directory you mount to must exist where you tell mount it is.  In your
example, unless "/" == "/home/davis", you don't have a progs where you're 
telling mount you do.  That'd be the problem...






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