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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 16:53:16 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: "'Cygwin ML'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Help with cygwin mounts
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On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 03:45:00PM +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
> Elfyn,
> 
> > I have been having a problem with mounting parts of the 
> > filesystem to posix-paths. When i try to mount my local 
> > volume on /local i get this error:
> > 
> > mount: /vol0: invalid argument
> > 
> > this is the process i follow to try and mount:
> > 
> > mkdir -p /local                (make the mount-dir)
> > mount -s D:\vol0 /vol0    (mount /vol0 as a system mount)
> 
> Should this be:
> 
> mount -s D:\vol0 /local

Shouldn't this be

  mount -s D:\\vol0 /local

? Note double backslashes.

Corinna

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