Re: tar a filesystem outside of /cygwin

["John F. Davis" <davis at skink dot net>]

On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 09:35:19AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> --- "John F. Davis" <davis@skink.net> wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> > I am trying to tar a filesystem outside of /cygwin.  I saw in the faq
> > the note about not installing cygwin in the c:/ direcotry.  Copying the
> > filesystem outside /cygwin to /cygwin so I can do a tar is not an option.
> > This is a rather large filesystem I am trying to tar.
> > 
> > Any other ideas?
> > 
> 
> If I have c:\cygwin and c:\foo and I want to access c:\foo with the Cygwin
> structure I would simply
>   mkdir /foo
>   mount [-b] [-s] c:/foo /foo
>   tar -cf foo.tar /foo
> :).  If you're not familiar with the mount command please reference the
> documentation at http://cygwin.com.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> =====
> Earnie Boyd
> mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com

Hello

That does it.  Here is my setup.

/cygwin is where cygnus is installed.
/progs is where I have a large filesystem I want to backup with tar.

mkdir /progs
mount c:/progs /progs
and then I can tar it.

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


John

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