Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 16:53:16 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: "'Cygwin ML'" Subject: Re: Help with cygwin mounts Message-ID: <20020627165316.M1188@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: 'Cygwin ML' References: <016f01c21de5$677878e0$0dcbfea9@emcbfsserv> <31CB870AD5AA384BB5419025DD9F7A841042CA@dailymail.cfs.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <31CB870AD5AA384BB5419025DD9F7A841042CA@dailymail.cfs.ac.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 03:45:00PM +0100, Tony Arnold wrote: > Elfyn, > > > I have been having a problem with mounting parts of the > > filesystem to posix-paths. When i try to mount my local > > volume on /local i get this error: > > > > mount: /vol0: invalid argument > > > > this is the process i follow to try and mount: > > > > mkdir -p /local (make the mount-dir) > > mount -s D:\vol0 /vol0 (mount /vol0 as a system mount) > > Should this be: > > mount -s D:\vol0 /local Shouldn't this be mount -s D:\\vol0 /local ? Note double backslashes. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/