Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 16:29:22 -0400 To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: mount --- invalid argument Message-ID: <20001005162922.A22186@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.6i In-Reply-To: ; from huttothomas@hotmail.com on Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:25:29PM -0500 On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:25:29PM -0500, Thomas Hutto wrote: >thomasahutto@THOMASAH ~ >$ mount >Device Directory Type Flags >f:\cygwin\bin /usr/bin user binmode >f:\cygwin\lib /usr/lib user binmode >f:\cygwin / user binmode >c: /c user textmode >d: /d user textmode >e: /e user textmode >f: /f user textmode >g: /g user textmode > >thomasahutto@THOMASAH ~ >$ mount f:\proj /proj >mount: /proj: Invalid argument > >can't think why f:\proj exists. The error message is misleading. Bash interprets single backslashes as a quoting character. So, what you're really typing is: mount f:proj /proj To rectify, either: mount f:\\proj /proj or mount f:/proj /proj cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com