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On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:13:00AM +0530, Rakesh Kumar wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm running a command inside Cygwin
> 
> 	 mount -b /cygdrive/c/cygwin/rakesh 
> 	 /cygdrive/c/cygwin/rakesh/usr/cygnus
> 
> But I get the following error?
> 
> 	mount: /cygdrive/c/cygwin/rakesh/usr/cygnus: Invalid argument
> 
> Is the mount command wrongly given??
> 
> Regards,
> Rakesh
> 

Yes.

You need a win32 path for the mount source.

man mount.

-cl

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