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On 09/29/2009 12:51 AM, Andy Holt wrote:
> ok, all apologies. I am familiar with mount, but if there is something
> extra special about how it works w/in cygwin I will check the Users
> Guide. I appreciate the direction, sorry I misunderstood (thought he was
> just telling me to 'man mount' and I felt that would be a waste of time
> since I am already familiar with the general of mount and the different
> basic linux mount points like bin and / and swap etc).

The semantics of Cygwin's mount are different than that of traditional 
Unix/Linux.
Principally, Cygwin's mount is responsible for mapping DOS paths into POSIX
paths.  It does not mount file-systems at the driver level like Unix/Linux.

> However, I also did not realize I was using an outdated version of
> cygwin!! Perhaps I should work off of 1.7 instead of 1.5? This sounds
> like it would probably make things a bit easier. is 1.7 stable enough?

1.7 is officially Beta (http://cygwin.com/#beta-test) but is very close to 
release.
Which you choose to use is up to you.

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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