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mount: /whatever: Permission denied
- From: AP - Simon Blandford <simon at audiopartnership dot com>
- To: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 00:24:03 +0100
- Subject: mount: /whatever: Permission denied
I can't mount a directory.
I type...
$ mkdir /twiki /c c:/twiki
$ mount -b -s c:/twiki /twiki
...but I get...
mount: /twiki: Permission denied
As far as I can tell using ls -l all the directories involved belong to
Administrator i.e. me. So what's going on?
ls -l of the / directory looks like...
$ ls -l
total 74
drwxr-xr-x 3 Administ None 49152 Jul 19 09:44 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 Administ None 0 Jul 19 09:47 c
-rwxr-xr-x 1 Administ None 57 Jul 19 09:05 cygwin.bat
-rw-r--r-- 1 Administ None 766 Jul 19 09:45 cygwin.ico
drwxr-xr-x 5 Administ None 4096 Jul 19 09:59 etc
drwxr-xr-x 3 Administ None 0 Jul 19 10:12 home
drwxr-xr-x 8 Administ None 16384 Jul 19 09:44 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 Administ None 0 Jul 19 09:43 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 Administ None 0 Jul 19 09:04 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 2 Administ None 0 Jul 19 09:47 twiki
drwxr-xr-x 16 Administ None 4096 Jul 19 09:43 usr
drwxr-xr-x 6 Administ None 0 Jul 19 09:45 var
ls -l of c: (the bit that matters!) looks like...
drwxr-xr-x 2 Administ None 0 Jul 19 09:47 twiki
Regards,
SimonB.
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