On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 03:20:08PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor >> Sent: 03 November 2004 15:13 > >> On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 10:07:41PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >> >Actually I change the cygdrive prefix to dev. Just seems to >> make sense >> >to me that C: would be /dev/c as apposed to /cygdrive/c, >> which is longer >> >to type. When I ls /dev I get: >> > >> >$ ls /dev >> >c/ d/ z/ >> > >> >A C, D and Z drive (the Z drive is to my backup partition on >> my Linux box). >> >> While, you are welcome to redefine /cygdrive any way you want, the unix >> paradigm does not put filesystems under /dev. That is for devices. > > Indeed. > > OTOH, renaming your cygdrive prefix to "mnt" might make quite a lot of >sense, even if it's not strictly the same. Kinda like having a handy >automounter......
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