having trouble mounting Win32 drives to Cygwin paths
Bob McGowan
Robert.McGowan@veritas.com
Fri Dec 31 13:28:00 GMT 1999
Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
> --- Scott A Sumner <sasumner@juno.com> wrote:
> > I just installed Cygwin 1.0 from the CD and I'm having trouble mounting
> > Win32 drives to
> > Cygwin paths.
> >
> > Following the "How can I access other drives?" topic in the faq, I do
> > this:
> >
> > bash-2.03$ mkdir /c
> > bash-2.03$ mount c:/ /c
>
> bash-2.03$ mount 'c:\' /c
>
> The first parameter to mount must be in DOS notation.
Earnie, I don't understand. I have done this (many times) using the
forward slash. I believe the documentation also says you can do it this
way (however, I have not verified this yet).
The following is copied from a bash session in a DOS box window:
[ramjr]$ mount
Device Directory Type Flags
c:\usr\bob /home/bob user binmode
C:\Cygwin / system binmode
[ramjr]$ mkdir -p /drv/d
[ramjr]$ mount -b d:/ /drv/d
[ramjr]$ mount
Device Directory Type Flags
c:\usr\bob /home/bob user binmode
C:\Cygwin / system binmode
d: /drv/d user binmode
[ramjr]$ ls /drv/d
RECYCLED
[ramjr]$ ls //d
RECYCLED
[ramjr]$
I was curious about the "mount" output listing just "d:" for the Device
column, so I unmounted it and did the following:
[ramjr]$ ls //d
RECYCLED
[ramjr]$ mkdir //d/tst
[ramjr]$ ls //d
RECYCLED tst
[ramjr]$ mount -b d:/tst /drv/d
[ramjr]$ mount
Device Directory Type Flags
c:\usr\bob /home/bob user binmode
C:\Cygwin / system binmode
d:\tst /drv/d user binmode
[ramjr]$ ls /drv/d
[ramjr]$ touch //d/tst/new
[ramjr]$ ls /drv/d
new
[ramjr]$
The software changes the path in this case, replacing the forward slash
with a back slash (UNIX -> DOS format). Perhaps the problem relates to
the first example, where the DOS Device name does not contain a
backslash?
> =====
> Earnie Boyd < mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com >
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Bob McGowan
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VERITAS Software
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