Mount A Drive

Mount A Drive

[Robert Mark Bram]

Howdy all!

I am running Cygwin on Win 2K. I am trying to mount my A drive and I have a
few questions.

First, what is wrong with this command:
  mount A:\ /a
I received the usage message in response:
  mount: not enough arguments
  Usage: mount [OPTION] [<win32path> <posixpath>]


There was a disk in the drive when I issued the command.

Does the format of the disk matter to Cygwin (it is FAT)?

Does it matter to Cygwin that the mount would be pointing to a file system
that might change - with each new disk put in or removed?

Thanks!

Rob

:)
:-}
;->


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RE: Mount A Drive

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mount A:\\ /a

-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf
Of Robert Mark Bram
Sent: 27 May 2002 14:26
To: Cygwin
Subject: Mount A Drive

Howdy all!

I am running Cygwin on Win 2K. I am trying to mount my A drive and I
have a
few questions.

First, what is wrong with this command:
  mount A:\ /a
I received the usage message in response:
  mount: not enough arguments
  Usage: mount [OPTION] [<win32path> <posixpath>]


There was a disk in the drive when I issued the command.

Does the format of the disk matter to Cygwin (it is FAT)?

Does it matter to Cygwin that the mount would be pointing to a file
system
that might change - with each new disk put in or removed?

Thanks!

Rob

:)
:-}
;->


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Mount A Drive

[David Starks-Browning]

On Monday 27 May 02, Robert Mark Bram writes:
> Howdy all!
> 
> I am running Cygwin on Win 2K. I am trying to mount my A drive and I have a
> few questions.
> 
> First, what is wrong with this command:
>   mount A:\ /a
> I received the usage message in response:
>   mount: not enough arguments
>   Usage: mount [OPTION] [<win32path> <posixpath>]

The backslash '\' is an escape character to the shell.  It prevents
the shell from interpreting the space as a word separator.  So mount
thinks it has one argument rather than two.

It's been a long time since I used mount, but

	mount A:\\ /a

should do what you expected, and possibly

	mount A: /a
and
	mount A:/ /a

will also work.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
David


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Re: Mount A Drive

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 11:25:39PM +1000, Robert Mark Bram wrote:
> Howdy all!
> 
> I am running Cygwin on Win 2K. I am trying to mount my A drive and I have a
> few questions.
> 
> First, what is wrong with this command:
>   mount A:\ /a

This has been answered by others.

You know that all drives are mounted automagically under the
/cygdrive path, don't you?  So there's no need to mount a:,
just refer to it by /cygdrive/a

Corinna

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