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Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:45:14 -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:
> 
> /cygwin is where cygnus is installed.
> /progs is where I have a large filesystem I want to backup with tar.
> 
-8<-
> 
> Any particular reason why I can't mount a filesystem in /home?
> i.e., cd /home/davis
> mkdir progs
> mount c:/progs /progs
> The mount says, "mount: progs: Invalid argument
> 

Because mount can't find /progs as a point to mount to.  You could do `mount
c:/progs /home/davis/progs' since that is where you stored your empty point
directory.

Cheers,

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

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