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RE: mount: /whatever: Permission denied


OK, solved it.

I acually have to run Cygwin logged into Win2K as Administrator for mount to
work in this way.

Alternatively, I can hack the mount points into the registry using regedit.

Simon.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: AP - Simon Blandford [mailto:simon@audiopartnership.com]
> Sent: 20 July 2002 00:24
> To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> 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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