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RE: Windows 7 64 Bit - Mounting Network Drives
- From: "Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]" <lavr at ncbi dot nlm dot nih dot gov>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:42:46 +0000
- Subject: RE: Windows 7 64 Bit - Mounting Network Drives
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- References: <5d086b5de9f248deae22fa7a6f8d7cc2 at BL2PR02MB449 dot namprd02 dot prod dot outlook dot com> <20140124134543 dot GP2357 at calimero dot vinschen dot de>
BTW, there is a type there, IMO:
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#cygdrive
<quote>
none /cygdrive cygdrive binary 0 0
D: /cygdrive/d somefs text 0 0
will not make file access using the /mnt/d path prefix suddenly using textmode
</quote>
The sentence after the fstab excerpt should have referred to "/cygdrive/d", not
to "/mnt/d" (alternatively, the excerpt should have used "/mnt" instead
of "/cygdrive" throughout).
HTH,
Anton Lavrentiev
Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI