From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
To: "John F. Davis" <davis@skink.net>, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: tar a filesystem outside of /cygwin
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:45:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001212184514.11023.qmail@web122.yahoomail.com> (raw)
--- "John F. Davis" <davis@skink.net> wrote:
>
> /cygwin is where cygnus is installed.
> /progs is where I have a large filesystem I want to backup with tar.
>
-8<-
>
> 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
>
Because mount can't find /progs as a point to mount to. You could do `mount
c:/progs /home/davis/progs' since that is where you stored your empty point
directory.
Cheers,
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2000-12-12 10:45 Earnie Boyd [this message]
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2000-12-13 5:49 Earnie Boyd
2000-12-12 9:35 Earnie Boyd
2000-12-12 10:31 ` John F. Davis
2000-12-12 10:39 ` Christopher Faylor
2000-12-12 10:41 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2000-12-12 10:58 ` Christopher Faylor
2000-12-12 11:02 ` John F. Davis
2000-12-12 11:43 ` Gerrit P. Haase
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2000-12-12 12:36 ` Gerrit P. Haase
2000-12-12 12:58 ` Christopher Faylor
2000-12-12 22:52 ` Gerrit P. Haase
2000-12-13 6:48 ` Christopher Faylor
2000-12-13 12:30 ` Gerrit P. Haase
2000-12-13 13:52 ` J. J. Farrell
2000-12-13 14:05 ` Corinna Vinschen
2000-12-12 9:16 John F. Davis
2000-12-12 9:30 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2000-12-12 9:53 ` David Starks-Browning
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