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From: Mellman Thomas <Thomas DOT Mellman AT icn DOT siemens DOT de>
To: "'Conrad Scott'" <Conrad DOT Scott AT dsl DOT pipex DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Mount point not visible in ls
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 16:30:01 +0200 
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Conrad Scott [mailto:Conrad DOT Scott AT dsl DOT pipex DOT com]
>>Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 5:54 PM
>>To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>>Subject: Mount point not visible in ls
>>
>>
>>I'm befuddled and I can't find anything on any of the cygwin 
>>mailing lists
>>to help me, so I hope someone here can spot my mistake.
>>
>>My system has been working fine for a long time but just 
>>recently I noticed
>>that when I do an `ls' of `/usr' or `echo /usr/*', `/usr/bin' 
>>doesn't show
>>up. It's there (if I do, for example, `ls -d /usr/bin') but 
>>in some way
>>invisible. Strangely `/usr/lib' is shows up fine, despite its mount
>>information being identical to that for `/usr/bin'


It seems that you're mount point /usr/bin doesn't exist.

That's not a bug, it's a feature.

Try umounting and checking if the mount points exist: likely
/usr/lib does and /usr/bin doesn't, and when you mount them, the
mount for /usr/bin gives you a warning.

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