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Re: Odd mount and path problem


I got an explanation that had something to do with the current drive affecting the way /cygdrive is interpreted. However, I wasn't using /cygdrive in my path, so I don't understand the real reason that you have to include the drive letter in mount table.

Thanks.

Jim George wrote:

----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry V. Streepy, Jr." <streepy@healthlanguage.com>
To: "Sylvain Petreolle" <spetreolle@yahoo.fr>
Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: Odd mount and path problem



Sylvain Petreolle wrote:


d:\cygwin\home on /home type system (binmode)
\cygwin\sbin on /sbin type system (binmode)
\cygwin\bin on /bin type system (binmode)


basic response is :
you miss the DOS drive letter in your mount points
and the / moint point looks wrong (maybe d:\cygwin ?):
D: on / type system (binmode)

Excellent - that was the problem, although I really don't understand why. Once d:/ is mounted on /, why do I need to qualify all the other mount points?



Did you get an answer to this Larry?

Jim



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