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 Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20001212133450.02457068@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:38:35 -0500 To: "John F. Davis" , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: tar a filesystem outside of /cygwin In-Reply-To: <20001212133037.A13142@skink.net> References: <20001212173519.8549.qmail@web112.yahoomail.com> <20001212173519.8549.qmail@web112.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 01:30 PM 12/12/2000, John F. Davis wrote: >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 The directory you mount to must exist where you tell mount it is. In your example, unless "/" == "/home/davis", you don't have a progs where you're telling mount you do. That'd be the problem... Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com