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Article #4014Re: Mount cygwin root on Windows root
From: Mark McIntyre
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:31
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:31
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Ben wrote:
> Hey, I'm used to working with Windows (and using Command Prompt for my
> "shell"), but I've recently been switching to using cygwin and bash.
> The problem is, I really don't like having to go to /cygdrive/c to get
> the actual Windows root, and although I played a bit with setting the
> prefix to /c, I still would prefer to have the cygwin root "/"
> coincide with the Windows root "C:".
You might be better to ask the Cygwin people direct - there's probably a
mailing list.
> Currently I have the cygwin installation on the root ("C:"), which is
> working perfectly, but I'd rather have the cygwin installation on C:
> \cygwin.
You seem to want the best of both worlds...
Question is - why do you want Windows c:\ to map to Cygwin's / ? Is it
because you have data files in c:\somedirectory and want to reference it
as /somedirectory? If so, will a symlink do the trick?
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