Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/01/23/21:32:17
L Anderson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Being new to Cygwin, I searched the faq and mail archives but could find
> no answer to my question. An answer would be appreciated.
>
> I'm running Win98 and Cygwin 1.1.7.
>
> I have drives ... e:, f:, g: ... on win98. I installed cygwin on g:. I
> fire up cygwin and do:
> cd /
> mkdir e
> mount e: /e
> All is well -- e shows up in both an ls ( as e) and mount (as e: /e).
>
> Now I do:
> mount f: /f
> I get the error:
> mount: warning - /f does not exist
> but mount shows
> f: f/ . . .
> and ls doesn't show f.
Note: it says warning, it doesn't say error. The non-list would be the
reason for the warning. IMO, it's probably time to make it an error.
>
>
> If I do an ls f, all the files under f:'s root are listed.
>
> If I do mkdir f, I get:
> mkdir: cannot make directory `f': File exists
>
Yes, another reason for the warning. You can either umount /f and then do
the mkdir /f and mount f:/ /f or you can mkdir /cygdrive/c/cygwin/f
assuming / is pointed at c:/cygwin
>
> So where is f hiding except in the mount table?
>
The mount table, in the windows registry.
>
> Why does f seem to work like any other directory (I can cd to it or its
> subdirs and ls their contents) but not show up in an ls at the root?
>
> Is this a bug or a feature?
>
It's a feature with old history.
Earnie.
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