soft link creation is failing with permission denied to set mount points in Cygwin application

Hello All,

I need your help in resolving the below issue in Cygwin application.

Issue description:

1. Installed Cygwin Application

2. Creating a symlink from the default /cygdrive to my preferred mount point as shown below and getting the below error:

jkhan@BLR-AA203053 /
$ ln -s /cygdrive /mnt
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/mnt': Permission denied

jkhan@BLR-AA203053 /
$ ln -s /cygdrive /media
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/media': Permission denied

I don't find the directory /mnt and /media to provide full permissions with my account.

My Expectation is that the command should provide the following output:

media -> /cygdrive

mnt -> /cygdrive

RTC -> /mnt/c/RTC --> RTC is a local folder created for my own task in c:\ drive...

Please help me in fixing the issue...

Many Thanks
Javeed Khan