This is the mail archive of the
cygwin@sources.redhat.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: Deprecating Automount (was Re: Why not mount / at C: ?)
- To: Jason Tishler <Jason dot Tishler at dothill dot com>
- Subject: Re: Deprecating Automount (was Re: Why not mount / at C: ?)
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 09:02:07 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
--- Jason Tishler <Jason.Tishler@dothill.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 07:58:04AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > Here's a scenario for you to try, `cd /cygdrive/c && cd ..'.
>
> The above is easily corrected -- just execute the following once:
>
> mkdir /cygdrive
>
> BTW, I create mount point directories for all of my mount points
> (including the cygdrive prefix), because it makes bash's tab
> completion feature work consistently regardless of whether the name
> begins with a mount point, symlink, etc.
>
That's confusing too. I would expect to see the subdirectories of /cygdrive
and therefore a list of disk devices by letter. I prefer mounting the device
and not needing the /cygdrive prefix at all.
Cheers,
=====
---
Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
__Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__
Cygwin Newbies: <http://gw32.freeyellow.com/>
__Minimalist GNU for Windows__
Mingw32 List: <http://www.egroups.com/group/mingw32/>
Mingw Home: <http://www.mingw.org/>
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere!
http://mail.yahoo.com/
--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com