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Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 14:35:14 +0100
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From: David Starks-Browning <starksb@ebi.ac.uk>
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To: "Robert Mark Bram" <relaxedrob@optushome.com.au>
Cc: "Cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Mount A Drive
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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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