Re: Cant' get <mount> command to work...

["Jonas Jensen" <bones0_list at hotmail dot com>]

The backslash is interpreted as an escape character, so you either have to type
double backslashes or a regular slash. This should work:

mount d:/ /d


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Arnold" <avr_fan@nettaxi.com>
To: <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Cc: "mail and news" <avr_fan@mailandnews.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 12:48 AM
Subject: Cant' get <mount> command to work...


> can anyone tell me how to mount my d:\ or e:\ drives under
> my root directory /  ?
>
> I've seen examples of how to do this...I believe it's called
> and 'identity' mount.
>
> I tried these ways but
>
> mount d:\  /d
> mount d:\ /cygdrive/d
>
> and also with different combinations of flags in other attempts
> like -f -s -b -t -u
>
> Every time the usage instructions for mount are displayed and then
> when I view the mount table, nothing has changed.
>
> I Just see /usr/bin  /usr/lib and /
>
> Strange to me though is the fact that I simply did a cd d:
> and 'pwd' showed  /cygdrive/d
>
> I could do this for any of the drives on my computer e: f: g: h:
> each seen with pwd as /cygdrive/<drive letter>
>
> Why is this? Does it mean that there's no need to perform a mount?
> Why do I need mount then?  I would like be able to just do a cd /d
> or cd /e from the bash.exe$ prompt.
>
> If I want directories to appear under my root /  or /usr then I should
> just use a hard link?
>
> I thought mount was to make other drives/devices appear as subdirectories
> of a mount point.  Could it be that all of my drives are on the same hard
> disk
> device? They are just separate partitions on the same disk.
>
> thanks,
> /dAVe
>
>
>
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