"mount"

Wed Mar 22 11:14:00 GMT 2000

Sean Champ wrote:
>> for cygwin-b20.1 on w98:
>> i remember reading something about the mounting-system changing between b20.1 and the current snapshots (or something similar to that, hopefully), so maybe this is irrelevant to those
>> but what exactly could cause "mount" to say that a pathname does not exist, when it looks definitely like it does?
>> eg:
> == == == ==
>> % mount -b c:/cygnus/cygwin-b20/h-i586-cygwin32/bin /bin
>> returns:
>> "Warning: /bin does not exist!"
>> ( and
> % cd /bin
> % dir
> shows all o.k.)
>> == == == ==
>> also, if i'm mounting /bin like that, will it cause things in ~/i586-cygwin32/bin to be ignored? or are those things a redundancy for someone not currently doing cygwin-builds for multiple platforms?
>> ( and is i586 any different than what might be built on an AMD K6 ?)
>> thanks
>> -- sean
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Did you do the cd to, and dir of, /bin _after_ running the mount
command? If so, the association of "/bin" to the directory
"c:/cygnus/cygwin-b20/h-i586-cygwin32/bin" has been made and a cd to
/bin will "translate" to the other.
Try doing a "cd /" and "ls". If "bin" does not show up in the output,
then that is what "mount" is complaining about. I just tried this and
the results follow (directory name is different since I have a /bin
already):
 $ ls houdini
 ls: houdini: No such file or directory
 $ mount -b i:/ $PWD/houdini
 Warning: /home/bob/houdini does not exist!
 $ ls
 Company Info downloads projects
 archives inputrc tmp
 bin mail tools
 broadcasts megami
 cygwin stuff mymail
 $ cd houdini
 /home/bob/houdini
-- 
Bob McGowan
Staff Software Quality Engineer
VERITAS Software
rmcgowan@veritas.com
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