From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15398 invoked by alias); 13 Dec 2001 17:19:12 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 15376 invoked from network); 13 Dec 2001 17:19:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lacrosse.corp.redhat.com) (207.175.42.154) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 Dec 2001 17:19:10 -0000 Received: from cgf.cipe.redhat.com (cgf.cipe.redhat.com [10.0.1.172]) by lacrosse.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id fBDHJ9h27426; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 12:19:09 -0500 Received: (from cgf@localhost) by cgf.cipe.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.8.7) id fBDHJZD14611; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 12:19:35 -0500 Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 09:31:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: Michael Salmon , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: mount fails Message-ID: <20011213171935.GE14458@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: Michael Salmon , cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20011212162736.A14575@speakeasy.net> <3C18ACE8.D2ACF53@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C18ACE8.D2ACF53@yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00697.txt.bz2 On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 08:28:08AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: >I know you already have your answer but for the record, this is the >wrong list for this post. This is a cygwin@cygwin.com type of post. >Cygwin-apps is to be used for porters to discuss porting programs. It's >not to post questions and concerns about using those programs. Please >keep this list on topic. > >Those answering an off topic post in this list, please be kind enough to >redirect it to cygwin@cygwin.com Thanks, Earnie. I was hoping that someone would point out that the docs are probably not wrong and go into details about why they are not wrong. An MS-DOS path is the right thing for the first non-option argument to mount. However, if you're running in a bash shell you have to remember that '\' has special meaning. cgf >Michael Salmon wrote: >> hi folks, >> I'm trying to mount a drive as textmode rather then the automatic >> binmode. I know mount for linux and freebsd but it's not acting >> AFAICT correctly. >> This is what I'm trying and the error I get >> >> mount -t -s c:\cygwin / >> mount: /: Invalid argument >> >> I tried escaping and quoting the / in case windows dislikes /, even >> though I'm using the cygwin bash. Didn't work. Basically I want >> to edit in vim files I checkout with Sourcesafe. >> >> If anyone knows how to make vim read windows files , that would also >> solve my problem - I'm looking into that also.. >> >> Also, after I couldnt get the drive mounted as textmode or binmode >> I decided a reboot was in order, hoping it would at least return >> to it's default binmode. After a reboot the drive does not get remounted >> and now things are generally messed up. >> >> cheers, >> ms- > >_________________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- cgf@redhat.com Red Hat, Inc. http://sources.redhat.com/ http://www.redhat.com/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/