A disk drive is a device, but /cygdrive/c is not a disk-drive. It's a file-system contained in a partition contained on a disk-drive (usually). In unix-like systems, the disk-drive and the partition are available as devices along with the file-system. The disk-drive in /dev/ is a flat-device. All bytes available sequentially as a single image.While, you are welcome to redefine /cygdrive any way you want, the unix paradigm does not put filesystems under /dev. That is for devices.To me, a disk drive IS a device. YMMV! :-)
I recall that there is a way to access the disks as real devices under NT/2000/XP using some strange notation. It might make sense to mount those under /dev/, but to mount your C-drive there would not be consistant with what /dev/ was designed for.
-Rolf
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