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Thanks for the reply Steve.   What I am actually trying to achieve here is to
be able to access a certain folder (say C:\foo\bar) by typing cd /bar at the
command prompt.



Steve Holden wrote:
> 
> gms5002 wrote:
>> Hi - I am having a problem getting mount to work in cygwin.  Here is what
>> I
>> am trying to do:
>> 
>> Greg AT CHICKEN ~/test
>> $ pwd
>> /home/Greg/test
>> 
>> Greg AT CHICKEN ~/test
>> $ mkdir foo
>> 
>> Greg AT CHICKEN ~/test
>> $ mkdir bar
>> 
>> Greg AT CHICKEN ~/test
>> $ vi bar/test
>> 
>> Greg AT CHICKEN ~/test
>> $ ls -l bar
>> total 0
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 Greg None 0 Sep  3 23:48 test
>> 
>> Greg AT CHICKEN ~/test
>> $ mount bar foo
>> mount: foo: Invalid argument
>> 
>> Greg AT CHICKEN ~/test
>> $ mount /home/Greg/test/bar/ /home/Greg/test/foo/
>> mount: /home/Greg/test/foo/: Invalid argument
>> 
>> 
>> any ideas?
> 
> Well you could start by explaining what you think those mounts should 
> have done. Are you trying for the equivalent of a loopback mount?
> 
> Remember that mount is one of the utilities that differs substantially 
> from its Linux/Unix counterpart. The man page starts:
> 
> NAME
>         mount  -  Display  information  about  mounted  filesystems, or 
> mount a
>         filesystem
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>         mount [OPTION] [<win32path> <posixpath>]
> 
> but it doesn't give any specifics of what a win32path is supposed to be 
> and whether relative paths constitute acceptable win32 paths. In 
> particular the section that reads
> 
> """
> Limitations:  there  is  a  hard-coded limit of 30 mount points.  Also,
> although you can mount to pathnames that do not start with  "/",  there
> is no way to make use of such mount points.
> """
> 
> should give you some clue that what you are trying to achieve should 
> probably be done some way other than what you have tried so far.
> 
> regards
>   Steve
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