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From:	AP - Simon Blandford <simon AT audiopartnership DOT com>
To:	"'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	mount: /whatever: Permission denied
Date:	Sat, 20 Jul 2002 00:24:03 +0100
MIME-Version:	1.0

I can't mount a directory.

I type...
   $ mkdir /twiki /c c:/twiki
   $ mount -b -s c:/twiki /twiki
...but I get...
mount: /twiki: Permission denied

As far as I can tell using ls -l all the directories involved belong to
Administrator i.e. me. So what's going on?

ls -l of the / directory looks like...
$ ls -l
total 74
drwxr-xr-x    3 Administ None        49152 Jul 19 09:44 bin
drwxr-xr-x    2 Administ None            0 Jul 19 09:47 c
-rwxr-xr-x    1 Administ None           57 Jul 19 09:05 cygwin.bat
-rw-r--r--    1 Administ None          766 Jul 19 09:45 cygwin.ico
drwxr-xr-x    5 Administ None         4096 Jul 19 09:59 etc
drwxr-xr-x    3 Administ None            0 Jul 19 10:12 home
drwxr-xr-x    8 Administ None        16384 Jul 19 09:44 lib
drwxr-xr-x    2 Administ None            0 Jul 19 09:43 sbin
drwxr-xr-x    2 Administ None            0 Jul 19 09:04 tmp
drwxr-xr-x    2 Administ None            0 Jul 19 09:47 twiki
drwxr-xr-x   16 Administ None         4096 Jul 19 09:43 usr
drwxr-xr-x    6 Administ None            0 Jul 19 09:45 var

ls -l of c: (the bit that matters!) looks like...
drwxr-xr-x    2 Administ None            0 Jul 19 09:47 twiki

Regards,
SimonB.

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