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, 7 Oct 2004 10:25:54 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Misleading warning from mount? Message-ID: <20041007082554.GC21753@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20041007062753.GB7398@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20041007065800.2F0BF84C4D@pessard.research.canon.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041007065800.2F0BF84C4D@pessard.research.canon.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Oct 7 16:57, luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au wrote: > bash-2.05b$ mount c:/temp/mnt/tmp /tmp > mount: warning - /tmp does not exist. > > Maybe I still misunderstand. In what sense does /tmp not exist? Under Unix, the directory in which you mount a partition must exist: $ mount /dev/hda /nirvana mount: /nirvana: No such file or directory or a similar message. From the perspective of Cygwin's mount, there's no /tmp directory at the moment you use it to mount c:\temp\mnt\tmp into it. That's all. In contrast to Unix, that's not breaking the mount, so you only get a warning. Use mount's -f option to suppress the warning message. Cornina -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/