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Subject: Re: Managed mount: Permission denied
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On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote:

> I am trying to get a managed mount in order to store a
> maildir. However it looks like I'm missing something:
>
> $ mkdir "D:\Mail"
> $ mkdir /Mail
> $ mount -o managed "D:\Mail" /Mail
> mount: /Mail: Permission denied

Judging by the prompt, you're using a Cygwin shell.  Most Unix shells use
the backslash as the escape character, so you're really creating a
directory "D:Mail" (which may not really be in the root of the D: drive).

> I don't understand why I could create de directory but not mount over
> it.

WFM.  Please read and follow the Cygwin problem reporting guidelines at
<http://cygwin.com/problems.html>, especially the part about attaching (as
an uncompressed text *attachment*) the output of "cygcheck -svr" on your
system.

> Moreover which is the preferred way to get managed mounts on boot?

Mounts in Cygwin are different from Unix mounts in that they are
persistent -- you only need to give the 'mount' command once.
	Igor
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