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Re: mount oddities - user or tool?
- To: kh at wg dot icl dot co dot uk, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com, bzinger at iname dot com
- Subject: Re: mount oddities - user or tool?
- From: "Marcus S. Yoo" <msy at scr dot siemens dot com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 10:06:23 -0500 (EST)
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>From bzinger@iname.com Wed Oct 29 10:04:17 1997
>To: kh@wg.icl.co.uk (Kevin Hughes), gnu-win32@cygnus.com
>From: "Michael A. Benzinger" <bzinger@iname.com>
>Subject: Re: mount oddities - user or tool?
>
>Kevin,
>
>There are two ways to resolve your problem:
>
> mount -b d:\\devel /devel
>or
> mount -b d:/devel /devel
>
>Either will work. The problem is the shell eats the backslash
>as an escape character.
>
>Mike Benzinger
>
>At 12:40 PM 10/28/97 GMT, Kevin Hughes wrote:
>>I have upgraded to the latest cygwin32.dll from Sergey Okhapkin. It solved
>many
>>of my little problems - hope most of the changes get into b19.
>>
>>I am having problems with mount. I had previously done the following
>>
>>mount d:\usr /usr
>>mount d:\devel /devel
>>
>>and everything was fine - I got the following when I checked with mount
>>
>>d:\usr /usr
>>d:\devel /devel
>>
>>Various people on the list have suggested that mounts should be done
>binary so
>>I umounted and remounted
>>
>>umount /devel
>>mount -b d:\devel /devel
>>umount /usr
>>mount -b d:\usr /usr
>>
>>When I looked at the mount I got
>>
>>d:usr /usr
>>d:devel /devel
>>
>>This meant that my system would not work - it could never find /devel
>unless it
>>was in /.
>>
>>I fixed this by a quick registry hack but what I really wanted to know is
>>what I did wrong or waht the system has gor wrong?
>>
>>Thanks for any advice
>>
>>Kevin
>>
>>PS I am on NT/service pack 3
>
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