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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: Managed mount: Permission denied
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On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 05:20:51PM +0100, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote:
>I am trying to get a managed mount in order to store a
>maildir. However it looks like I'm missing something:
>
>$ mkdir "D:\Mail"
>$ mkdir /Mail
>$ mount -o managed "D:\Mail" /Mail
>mount: /Mail: Permission denied
>
>I don't understand why I could create de directory but not mount over
>it. Moreover which is the preferred way to get managed mounts on boot?
>
>Any ideas welcome.

WFM.  However I used:

  mkdir /cygdrive/d/Mail
  mkdir /Mail
  mount -o managed d:/Mail /Mail

If this doesn't work for you, then we'll need the details mentioned at
http://cygwin.com/problems.html .

cgf


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