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: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:27:54 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.1.7:mount and ls problem Message-ID: <20010124152754.A26694@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4.3.1.2.20010123202852.022d7ce8@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <4.3.1.2.20010124100612.021e0c10@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <200101241656.SAA04669@linux.> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <200101241656.SAA04669@linux.>; from ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:56:01PM +0200 On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:56:01PM +0200, Ehud Karni wrote: >> cd / >> mkdir e >> mount e: /e >> All is well -- e shows up in both an ls ( as e) and mount (as e: /e). >> >> mount f: /f >> I get the error: >> mount: warning - /f does not exist >> but mount shows >> f: f/ . . . >> and ls doesn't show f. >> >> If I do mkdir f, I get: >> mkdir: cannot make directory `f': File exists > >On UNIX systems, you can NOT mount on non-existing directory. The POSIX part of a mount does not have to be a directory. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple