Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/12/12/14:14:50
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 01:57:58PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 01:38:35PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> >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...
>
> Actually, after digging around in the code, it looks like the most
> likely scenario in which you'd get an "Invalid argument" is if you
> typed something like:
>
> mount c:/progs progs
> ^
> no leading slash
>
> If you don't specify an absolute path, mount will complain.
Yeap.
I said mount c:/progs /progs. I meant
mount c:/progs progs.
Also, progs was not already mounted.
So, your look at the source confirmed it. My hat is off to you.
Thanks.
John
>
> It is not necessary for either of mounts arguments to exist, but they
> have to be fully qualified windows and unix paths respectively.
>
> So, when I suggested that the directory was already mounted, I was wrong.
> And, the inference that the directory has to exist is also wrong.
>
> What you want to do in the above scenario is:
>
> mount c:\whereever\home\really\is\home\davis\progs /progs
>
> cgf
>
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