From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14512 invoked by alias); 27 May 2002 13:35:47 -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 Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 14432 invoked from network); 27 May 2002 13:35:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO alpha1.ebi.ac.uk) (193.62.196.122) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 27 May 2002 13:35:39 -0000 Received: from BRYCE.ebi.ac.uk (bryce.dhcp.ebi.ac.uk [193.62.198.162]) by alpha1.ebi.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA493457; Mon, 27 May 2002 14:35:14 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 14:47:00 -0000 Message-Id: <7559-Mon27May2002143514+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Robert Mark Bram" Cc: "Cygwin" Subject: Mount A Drive In-Reply-To: References: X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg01650.txt.bz2 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] [ ] 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 -- 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/