tar a filesystem outside of /cygwin

Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) lhall@rfk.com
Tue Dec 12 10:41:00 GMT 2000


At 01:30 PM 12/12/2000, John F. Davis wrote:
>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

The directory you mount to must exist where you tell mount it is.  In your
example, unless "/" == "/home/davis", you don't have a progs where you're 
telling mount you do.  That'd be the problem...






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