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gms5002 wrote:
> Hi - I am having a problem getting mount to work in cygwin.  Here is what I
> am trying to do:
> 
> Greg@CHICKEN ~/test
> $ pwd
> /home/Greg/test
> 
> Greg@CHICKEN ~/test
> $ mkdir foo
> 
> Greg@CHICKEN ~/test
> $ mkdir bar
> 
> Greg@CHICKEN ~/test
> $ vi bar/test
> 
> Greg@CHICKEN ~/test
> $ ls -l bar
> total 0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 Greg None 0 Sep  3 23:48 test
> 
> Greg@CHICKEN ~/test
> $ mount bar foo
> mount: foo: Invalid argument
> 
> Greg@CHICKEN ~/test
> $ mount /home/Greg/test/bar/ /home/Greg/test/foo/
> mount: /home/Greg/test/foo/: Invalid argument
> 
> 
> any ideas?

Well you could start by explaining what you think those mounts should 
have done. Are you trying for the equivalent of a loopback mount?

Remember that mount is one of the utilities that differs substantially 
from its Linux/Unix counterpart. The man page starts:

NAME
        mount  -  Display  information  about  mounted  filesystems, or 
mount a
        filesystem

SYNOPSIS
        mount [OPTION] [<win32path> <posixpath>]

but it doesn't give any specifics of what a win32path is supposed to be 
and whether relative paths constitute acceptable win32 paths. In 
particular the section that reads

"""
Limitations:  there  is  a  hard-coded limit of 30 mount points.  Also,
although you can mount to pathnames that do not start with  "/",  there
is no way to make use of such mount points.
"""

should give you some clue that what you are trying to achieve should 
probably be done some way other than what you have tried so far.

regards
  Steve
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