Find free drive letter in Cygwin?

[Martin Wege]

On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 8:43 PM Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> On 2023-08-07 10:52, Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote:
> > What is the official cygwin way to find a free drive letter, which can
> > be used in a script to mount a drive?
>
> Just use the Windows UNC network path directly on Cygwin with '/' not '\'.
>
> For Windows, it may still be NET USE * \\... but have not used it in decades!
>
> Cygwin should pick it up and automount it under /proc/cygdrive/?/ but see
> disclaimer above.

So it would be a valid solution in bash to loop from a-z in
/proc/cygdrive/$letter/ and see whether this is a dir, right?

Thanks,
Martin