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Re: strange mount behaviour...

On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 05:57:05AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>---Michael Hirmke <mh@mike.franken.de> wrote:
>> Sebastien Barre [Sebastien.Barre@utc.fr] wrote:
>> 
>> [...]
>> >Device           Directory           Type        Flags
>> >D:\temp          /tmp                native      text!=binary
>> >d:\devel\gnuwin32\cygwin-b20\etc /etc                native     
>text!=binary
>> >D:               /d                  native      text!=binary
>> >D:\devel\gnuwin32\root /                   native      text!=binary
>> 
>> To avoid problems, you shouldn't mount directories from the same
>> partition, if it isn't absolutely nescessary.
>> Instead use
>> 
>> Device                       Directory     Type        Flags
>> D:\devel\gnuwin32\cygwin-b20 /             native      text!=binary
>> 
>> and then
>> ln -s //d/temp /tmp
>> 
>> and use //d/ instead of /d
>
>Why do you give this warning?  I don't have problems with have more
>than one mount on the same device.

Ditto.

cgf

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