On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > I am trying to get a managed mount in order to store a > maildir. However it looks like I'm missing something: > > $ mkdir "D:\Mail" > $ mkdir /Mail > $ mount -o managed "D:\Mail" /Mail > mount: /Mail: Permission denied
Judging by the prompt, you're using a Cygwin shell. Most Unix shells use the backslash as the escape character, so you're really creating a directory "D:Mail" (which may not really be in the root of the D: drive). > I don't understand why I could create de directory but not mount over > it. WFM. Please read and follow the Cygwin problem reporting guidelines at <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>, especially the part about attaching (as an uncompressed text *attachment*) the output of "cygcheck -svr" on your system. > Moreover which is the preferred way to get managed mounts on boot? Mounts in Cygwin are different from Unix mounts in that they are persistent -- you only need to give the 'mount' command once. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/