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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:21:29 -0600
From: "Larry V. Streepy, Jr." <streepy AT healthlanguage DOT com>
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To: Jim George <jim DOT george AT blueyonder DOT co DOT uk>
CC: Sylvain Petreolle <spetreolle AT yahoo DOT fr>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Odd mount and path problem
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I got an explanation that had something to do with the current drive 
affecting the way /cygdrive is interpreted.  However, I wasn't using 
/cygdrive in my path, so I don't understand the real reason that you 
have to include the drive letter in mount table.

Thanks.

Jim George wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Larry V. Streepy, Jr." <streepy AT healthlanguage DOT com>
> To: "Sylvain Petreolle" <spetreolle AT yahoo DOT fr>
> Cc: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 7:59 PM
> Subject: Re: Odd mount and path problem
> 
> 
> 
>>Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>d:\cygwin\home on /home type system (binmode)
>>>>\cygwin\sbin on /sbin type system (binmode)
>>>>\cygwin\bin on /bin type system (binmode)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>basic response is :
>>>you miss the DOS drive letter in your mount points
>>>and the / moint point looks wrong (maybe d:\cygwin ?):
>>>D: on / type system (binmode)
>>>
>>
>>Excellent - that was the problem, although I really don't understand 
>>why.  Once d:/ is mounted on /, why do I need to qualify all the other 
>>mount points?
>>
>>
>>
> Did you get an answer to this Larry?
> 
> Jim
> 
> 


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