From: msy AT scr DOT siemens DOT com (Marcus S. Yoo)
Subject: Re: mount oddities - user or tool?
29 Oct 1997 15:34:39 -0800
Message-ID: <199710291506.KAA15360.cygnus.gnu-win32@acura.scr.siemens.com>
To: kh AT wg DOT icl DOT co DOT uk, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com, bzinger AT iname DOT com



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>From bzinger AT iname DOT com Wed Oct 29 10:04:17 1997
>To: kh AT wg DOT icl DOT co DOT uk (Kevin Hughes), gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
>From: "Michael A. Benzinger" <bzinger AT iname DOT com>
>Subject: Re: mount oddities - user or tool?
>
>Kevin,
>
>There are two ways to resolve your problem:
>
>	mount -b d:\\devel /devel
>or
>	mount -b d:/devel /devel
>
>Either will work.  The problem is the shell eats the backslash
>as an escape character.
>
>Mike Benzinger
>
>At 12:40 PM 10/28/97 GMT, Kevin Hughes wrote:
>>I have upgraded to the latest cygwin32.dll from Sergey Okhapkin. It solved
>many
>>of my little problems - hope most of the changes get into b19.
>>
>>I am having problems with mount. I had previously done the following
>>
>>mount d:\usr /usr
>>mount d:\devel /devel
>>
>>and everything was fine - I got the following when I checked with mount
>>
>>d:\usr		/usr
>>d:\devel	/devel
>>
>>Various people on the list have suggested that mounts should be done
>binary so 
>>I umounted and remounted
>>
>>umount /devel
>>mount -b d:\devel /devel
>>umount /usr
>>mount -b d:\usr /usr
>>
>>When I looked at the mount I got
>>
>>d:usr		/usr
>>d:devel		/devel
>>
>>This meant that my system would not work - it could never find /devel
>unless it
>>was in /.
>>
>>I fixed this by a quick registry hack but what I really wanted to know is
>>what I did wrong or waht the system has gor wrong?
>>
>>Thanks for any advice
>>
>>Kevin
>>
>>PS I am on NT/service pack 3
>
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