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Subject: Re: Help with mount..
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Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:34:15 -0400
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echo 'alias cdbar="cd /cygdrive/foo/bar"' >> .bashrc

On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 07:03 -0700, gms5002 wrote:
> 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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