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Re: mount length
- To: b dot mcleod at opengroup dot org
- Subject: Re: mount length
- From: "Daniel P. Kionka" <dkionka at worldtalk dot com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 11:08:33 PDT
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Expires: Fri, 16 May 1997
> From: "Bruce D. McLeod" <b.mcleod@opengroup.org>
>
> The size of the directory that can be mounted seems to be limited
> to 32 characters, which seems restrictive.
>
> C:\>mount c:\ /abcdefghi/abcdefghi/abcdefghi/abcdefghi
>
> C:\>mount
> Device Directory Type Flags
> c: /abcdefghi/abcdefghi/abcdefghi/a( native no-mixed,text!=binary
I agree. I do not like cluttering up c:/, so I install software in
c:/local. When I mounted c:/local/cygnus/H-i386-cygwin32/bin as /bin it
did not complain, but /bin did not work. Luckily mounting
c:/local/cygnus/H-i386-cygwin32 as /usr did work, and I finally figured
out the size limitation.
So not only should the size be greater, it must complain when the path
is too long.
Dan Kionka
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