From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Portable shell code between Cygwin and Linux
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:37:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110802143708.GA8652@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80oc08m291.fsf@somewhere.org>
On Aug 2 14:22, Sebastien Vauban wrote:
> Hi Corinna Vinschen,
>
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > How is that different from using a drive letter like C:? The best you can do
> > is to create a mount point(*) under Cygwin which has the same path as under
> > Ubuntu. Then, just use the same POSIX paths on both systems.
>
> As I put all my files starting at c:/home/sva, I'd then to mount
>
> C: = /
>
> right?
Wrong. Don't change the root mount point.
> So that my home directory under Ubuntu (/home/sva) is the same under Cygwin
> (/home/sva = C:/home/sva).
>
> Though, the following did not succeed:
>
> #+begin_src sh
> $ mount C: / -o binary
> mount: warning: couldn't determine mount type.
> mount: /: Operation not permitted
> #+end_src
>
> Is this operation really not permitted?
Don't do this. Add a mount point to /home to your fstab.
Did you *read* the User's Guide? In my previous mail I pasted two
links for your convenience. For good measure I add another one:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#cygdrive
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mount
Corinna
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-02 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-29 19:15 Sebastien Vauban
2011-07-29 19:45 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2011-08-01 6:40 ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-07-29 19:47 ` Eliot Moss
2011-08-01 6:45 ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-07-29 20:17 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-07-30 12:20 ` Andrey Repin
2011-08-01 6:50 ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-08-01 7:28 ` Csaba Raduly
2011-08-02 11:58 ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-08-02 12:36 ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-08-05 16:05 ` Andrey Repin
2011-08-08 1:16 ` Sven Köhler
2011-08-08 2:07 ` Eliot Moss
2011-08-08 22:17 ` Gary Johnson
2011-08-08 8:20 ` Andrey Repin
2011-08-08 9:11 ` Sven Köhler
2011-08-08 14:27 ` Eliot Moss
2011-08-01 7:00 ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-08-01 7:44 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-08-02 12:11 ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-08-02 12:23 ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-08-02 14:37 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2011-08-01 9:21 ` Thorsten Kampe
2011-08-02 12:25 ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-08-02 15:41 ` Eliot Moss
2011-08-02 20:05 ` Thorsten Kampe
2011-08-02 20:45 ` Christopher Faylor
2011-08-03 16:23 ` Andy Hall
2011-08-08 1:20 ` Sven Köhler
2011-08-08 13:41 ` Eric Blake
2011-08-10 12:03 ` Sven Köhler
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