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Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 14:01:41 -0500
From: "John F. Davis" <davis AT skink DOT net>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: tar a filesystem outside of /cygwin
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In-Reply-To: <20001212135758.A4767@redhat.com>; from cgf@redhat.com on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 01:57:58PM -0500

On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 01:57:58PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 01:38:35PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> >At 01:30 PM 12/12/2000, John F. Davis wrote:
> >>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
> >
> >The directory you mount to must exist where you tell mount it is.  In your
> >example, unless "/" == "/home/davis", you don't have a progs where you're 
> >telling mount you do.  That'd be the problem...
> 
> Actually, after digging around in the code, it looks like the most
> likely scenario in which you'd get an "Invalid argument" is if you
> typed something like:
> 
> mount c:/progs progs
>                ^
>                no leading slash
> 
> If you don't specify an absolute path, mount will complain.

Yeap.  

I said mount c:/progs /progs.  I meant 
mount c:/progs progs.
Also, progs was not already mounted.
So, your look at the source confirmed it.  My hat is off to you.
Thanks.

John
> 
> It is not necessary for either of mounts arguments to exist, but they
> have to be fully qualified windows and unix paths respectively.
> 
> So, when I suggested that the directory was already mounted, I was wrong.
> And, the inference that the directory has to exist is also wrong.
> 
> What you want to do in the above scenario is:
> 
> mount c:\whereever\home\really\is\home\davis\progs /progs
> 
> cgf
> 
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