Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/04/18/16:02:36
On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 12:56:20PM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>Doug,
>
>Mounting creates a record internal to Cygwin. In a classic Unix file
>system where the direct closes counterpart to the Cygwin mount
>originated, the directory onto which a file system device or partition
>was to be mounted had to exist.
>
>So the answer is, just mkdir the mount-point directory (as you'd have
>to in Unix). When the mount is not in effect, you'll see what's in the
>mount-point directory. When the mount is in effect, you'll see the
>contents of the mounted directory instead.
>
>The same goes to get completion to work.
Randall, I think you missed a key problem here. The "path on the left"
in mount is a DOS path, not a cygwin path. So the command should be:
bash$ mount d:/download $HOME/download
assuming HOME is set to something sensical.
cgf
>At 12:45 2003-04-18, Doug Jenkinson wrote:
>>Hi,
>>I'm relatively new here, but I have a question about mount.
>>
>>I would like to mount a directory into my home directory. So, I use
>>the command "mount -f -u /cygdrive/d/download $HOME/download" assuming,
>>of course, that D:\Download exists. Now, if I execute "ls ~", why
>>don't I see the download directory? Why can I see mounted directories
>>in the /cygdrive?
>>
>>Am I asking for the impossible or is there another way?
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