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Re: tar a filesystem outside of /cygwin
- To: "John F. Davis" <davis at skink dot net>, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: tar a filesystem outside of /cygwin
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:45:14 -0800 (PST)
--- "John F. Davis" <davis@skink.net> wrote:
>
> /cygwin is where cygnus is installed.
> /progs is where I have a large filesystem I want to backup with tar.
>
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>
> Any particular reason why I can't mount a filesystem in /home?
> i.e., cd /home/davis
> mkdir progs
> mount c:/progs /progs
> The mount says, "mount: progs: Invalid argument
>
Because mount can't find /progs as a point to mount to. You could do `mount
c:/progs /home/davis/progs' since that is where you stored your empty point
directory.
Cheers,
=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
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