Regarding Problems with the mount command inside a script

[Brian Dessent]

Rakesh Kumar wrote:

> I'm running a command inside Cygwin
> 
> mount -b /cygdrive/c/cygwin/rakesh /cygdrive/c/cygwin/rakesh/usr/cygnus
> 
> But I get the following error

> 
> mount: /cygdrive/c/cygwin/rakesh/usr/cygnus: Invalid argument
> 
> Is the mount command wrongly given??

Yes.  Take a look at "mount --help".  The first argument is a win32 path
-- that is the whole point of mount table entries, to map a win32 path
to a POSIX path.  And you should not be using /cygdrive like that. 
Assuming that c:/cygwin is mounted as /, then you probably want
something like

mount c:/cygwin/rakesh /usr/cygnus

Brian

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