From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4478 invoked by alias); 9 Feb 2011 15:38:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 4469 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Feb 2011 15:38:03 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp102.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (HELO smtp102.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com) (68.142.198.201) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:37:58 +0000 Received: (qmail 37059 invoked from network); 9 Feb 2011 15:37:56 -0000 Received: from [192.168.1.100] (gchicares@75.42.154.199 with plain) by smtp102.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 09 Feb 2011 07:37:56 -0800 PST X-Yahoo-SMTP: mjD.OBqswBAPbVUxYJaYPvc61jLEnpq8VnBwJGdbEJOPA9xw Message-ID: <4D52B4D3.2040102@sbcglobal.net> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:38:00 -0000 From: Greg Chicares User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Accessing folders elsewhere than C:\cygwin References: <4D52A7DD.7080208@bonhard.uklinux.net> In-Reply-To: <4D52A7DD.7080208@bonhard.uklinux.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-02/txt/msg00244.txt.bz2 On 2011-02-09 14:42Z, Fergus wrote: > I have Cygwin mounted conventionally under Q:\cygwin. > I would like to access files under Q:\else. > But (for example) ls ../../.. only ever attains \cygwin (and lower). > I can use ls /cygdrive/q/else/ (and lower) but this means knowing the > drive name (in this case Q:) > I don't much want to change mount points which are currently > conventionally defined. > Is there a way I can get to Q:\else without knowing the drive name Q:? ls `cygpath -m /`/../else -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple