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Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:35:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: tar a filesystem outside of /cygwin
To: "John F. Davis" <davis AT skink DOT net>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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--- "John F. Davis" <davis AT skink DOT net> wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I am trying to tar a filesystem outside of /cygwin.  I saw in the faq
> the note about not installing cygwin in the c:/ direcotry.  Copying the
> filesystem outside /cygwin to /cygwin so I can do a tar is not an option.
> This is a rather large filesystem I am trying to tar.
> 
> Any other ideas?
> 

If I have c:\cygwin and c:\foo and I want to access c:\foo with the Cygwin
structure I would simply
  mkdir /foo
  mount [-b] [-s] c:/foo /foo
  tar -cf foo.tar /foo
:).  If you're not familiar with the mount command please reference the
documentation at http://cygwin.com.

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com

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