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On 10/17/2012 4:58 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Gary Oberbrunner! > >> I understand about not installing cygwin in c:\. But I really want a single >> filesystem, so cygwin's / is Windows c:/, and cygwin /Program\ Files is >> Windows /Program Files and so on. > > Having single filesystem, and having cygwin mounted on root is not the same. It's awfully close. >> I have an environment with lots of non-cygwin tools and translating paths >> between them is not workable. > > Especially not the same, when you start to interoperate with non-cygwin > applications, and when you start to update your Cygwin installation. > > Heed my suggestion, don't do it. It works fine for me. I just use c:\bin as /bin, c:\etc as /etc, and so on.
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