Cygwin 1.7 on a FLASH Drive

[Ralph Hempel]

Dave Korn wrote:
> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote on 20 August 2008 19:22:
> 
>> Ralph Hempel wrote:
> 
>>> Is there a way to create a symlink of a directory on a local
>>> hard drive to the cygwin /home/username/ directory?
>> No, not across volumes.  
> 
>   Huh?  I must be misunderstanding what you mean here:
> 
> / $ df .
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> C:\cygwin            151974868 122610860  29364008  81% /
> / $ cd /cygdrive/c
> /cygdrive/c $ df .
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> c:                   151974868 122610860  29364008  81% /cygdrive/c
> /cygdrive/c $ ln -s /cygdrive/e link-to-e-drive
> /cygdrive/c $ cd link-to-e-drive
> /cygdrive/c/link-to-e-drive $ df .
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> e:                   104864252  71154064  33710188  68% /cygdrive/e

Ooooh. This is nice. How does Cygiwn keep track of this link? Does
it survive a reboot?

Ralph

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