strange mount behaviour...

Wed Feb 24 00:08:00 GMT 1999

Sebastien Barre <Sebastien.Barre@utc.fr> writes:
> > mount D: /d
> > ls etc
> > ls d 
>> !! nothing !!
>> > ls /etc
> termcap

It is a good idea to check (and paste it with the other things) what
your pwd is here. Just to be sure :)
> > cd /etc
> > ls
> termcap

/Levon Saldamli.
> Well, sorry to post another naive question, but here is a sequence of
> reproducible commands that lead to something very obscure to me : mounting
> D: (the disk where cygwin and my root is located) seems to invalid some
> internal behaviours (well, let's say some illogical things appear :)
>> Here it is. I just installed B20.1,
>> > GNUWIN32=d:/devel/gnuwin32; export GNUWIN32
> > CYGROOT=${GNUWIN32}/cygwin-b20; export CYGROOT
>> - create some directories for a kind of filesystem
>> > cd ${GNUWIN32}
> > mkdir root
> > cd root
> > mkdir tmp etc d
>> - mount
>> > umount /
> > mount ${GNUWIN32}/root /
> > mount D:/temp /tmp
> > mount ${CYGROOT}/etc /etc
>> No pb until now, for example, let's have a look at /etc (two times) :
>> > cd /
> > ls
> d/ etc/ tmp/
> > ls etc
> termcap
> > ls /etc
> termcap
>> Now here is the funny part :
>> > mount D: /d
> > ls etc
> > ls d 
>> !! nothing !!
>> > ls /etc
> termcap
> > cd /etc
> > ls
> termcap
>> !! now here they are, '/etc' works, 'etc' does not !!
>> > cd ..
> > ls d
> > ls /d
> autoexec.bat config.sys
> ... etc.
>> Could anyone explain me why mounting D: ou D:/ ou d:/ to /d produce these
> artefacts ? Doing the same thing with C: ou E: will NOT cause any problem.
> Is it impossible to mount the drive where cygwin is located ? Installing
> coolview did not help too. As well as binary mount.
>> Thanks
>>> ______________________________________________________________
> Sebastien Barre http://www.hds.utc.fr/~barre/
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