On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 3:04 PM Takashi Yano <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:46:42 +0200
> Aurélien Couderc wrote:
> > Cygwin:
> >
> > /usr/bin/mount with UNC path does not work on Cygwin 3.7 (todays version).
> >
> > Example:
> > mkdir nfsdata
> > /usr/bin/mount  '\\66.9.20.44@NFS@2049\nfspool' $PWD/nfspool
> >
> > But $PWD/nfspool is empty then, while ls -l
> > //66.9.20.44@NFS@2049/nfspool shows directory content.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
>
> /usr/bin/mount //66.9.20.44@NFS@2049/nfspool

No, that only prints:
mount: can't find //66.9.20.44@NFS@2049/nfspool in /etc/fstab or in
/etc/fstab.d/$USER

I also tried
mkdir nfspool
/usr/bin/mount  '//66.9.20.44@NFS@2049/nfspool' $PWD/nfspool
that succeeded, but a cd nfspool then fails.

Aurélien
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Aurélien Couderc <[email protected]>
Big Data/Data mining expert, chess enthusiast

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