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From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.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 10:41:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4.3.1.2.20001212133450.02457068@pop.ma.ultranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001212133037.A13142@skink.net>

At 01:30 PM 12/12/2000, John F. Davis wrote:
>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

The directory you mount to must exist where you tell mount it is.  In your
example, unless "/" == "/home/davis", you don't have a progs where you're 
telling mount you do.  That'd be the problem...






Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-12-12 10:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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) [this message]
2000-12-12 10:58     ` Christopher Faylor
2000-12-12 11:02       ` John F. Davis
2000-12-12 11:43       ` Gerrit P. Haase
     [not found]         ` <20001212144941.A13469@skink.net>
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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-12-13  5:49 Earnie Boyd
2000-12-12 10:45 Earnie Boyd
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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