Odd mount and path problem
Larry V. Streepy, Jr.
streepy@healthlanguage.com
Tue Jul 23 11:52:00 GMT 2002
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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