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Re: having trouble mounting Win32 drives to Cygwin paths
- To: Scott A Sumner <sasumner at juno dot com>, "'Cygwin mailing list'" <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: having trouble mounting Win32 drives to Cygwin paths
- From: Heinz-Juergen Oertel <oe at port dot de>
- Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 08:01:36 +0100
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Scott A Sumner wrote:
>
> I just installed Cygwin 1.0 from the CD and I'm having trouble mounting
> Win32 drives to
> Cygwin paths.
>
> Following the "How can I access other drives?" topic in the faq, I do
> this:
>
> bash-2.03$ mkdir /c
> bash-2.03$ mount c:/ /c
> bash-2.03$ ls /c
> bash-2.03$
>
> Notice my ls command didn't show me what is in c:\ and I don't know why!
>
> However, if I do the faq's "special means of accessing other drive
> letters"
> syntax, I get this, which is what I feel I should have gotten with `ls
> /c' above:
>
> bash-2.03$ ls //c/
> AUTOEXEC.BAT CONFIG.SYS Logo_.sys RECYCLED
> ffastun.ffo
> BOOTLOG.PRV DBLSPACE.INI MAB SCANDISK.LOG
> ffastun0.ffx
> BOOTLOG.TXT DELL MSDOS.SYS Utilitys
> logo.sys
> Batch Dos Mew71 WINDOWS
> winzip.log
> CDROM IO.SYS PREALG ffastun.ffa
> COMMAND.COM Junk Program Files ffastun.ffl
> bash-2.03$
>
> Here's my mount table before I do the mount:
> Device Directory Type Flags
> \\.\tape1: /dev/st1 native text!=binary
> \\.\tape0: /dev/st0 native text!=binary
> \\.\b: /dev/fd1 native text!=binary
> \\.\a: /dev/fd0 native text!=binary
> C: / native text!=binary
>
> Here's my mount table after I do the mount:
> Device Directory Type Flags
> \\.\tape1: /dev/st1 native text!=binary
> \\.\tape0: /dev/st0 native text!=binary
> \\.\b: /dev/fd1 native text!=binary
> \\.\a: /dev/fd0 native text!=binary
> c: /c native text!=binary
> C: / native text!=binary
>
> Can anyone shed some light on why this isn't working for me?
>
I am uing b20.1
If you want to acess your drive c: you don't have to do anything, as your first
printout of the mount table shows. Type:
$ ls /
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