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 Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:39:53 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: tar a filesystem outside of /cygwin Message-ID: <20001212133953.I3082@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20001212173519.8549.qmail@web112.yahoomail.com> <20001212133037.A13142@skink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <20001212133037.A13142@skink.net>; from davis@skink.net on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 01:30:37PM -0500 On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 01:30:37PM -0500, John F. Davis wrote: >On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 09:35:19AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote: >> --- "John F. Davis" wrote: >> > Hello >> > >> > I am trying to tar a filesystem outside of /cygwin. I saw in the faq >> > the note about not installing cygwin in the c:/ direcotry. Copying the >> > filesystem outside /cygwin to /cygwin so I can do a tar is not an option. >> > This is a rather large filesystem I am trying to tar. >> > >> > Any other ideas? >> > >> >> If I have c:\cygwin and c:\foo and I want to access c:\foo with the Cygwin >> structure I would simply >> mkdir /foo >> mount [-b] [-s] c:/foo /foo >> tar -cf foo.tar /foo >> :). If you're not familiar with the mount command please reference the >> documentation at http://cygwin.com. >> >> Cheers, >> >> ===== >> Earnie Boyd >> mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com > >Hello > >That does it. Here is my setup. > >/cygwin is where cygnus is installed. >/progs is where I have a large filesystem I want to backup with tar. > >mkdir /progs >mount c:/progs /progs >and then I can tar it. > >Any particular reason why I can't mount a filesystem in /home? >i.e., cd /home/davis >mkdir progs >mount c:/progs /progs >The mount says, "mount: progs: Invalid argument That would indicate that you've already mounted '/progs'. Just type 'mount' and you should see that. To rectify, either use the '-f' switch to mount or 'umount /progs' first. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com