From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 93254 invoked by alias); 3 Feb 2017 21:09:55 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 93243 invoked by uid 89); 3 Feb 2017 21:09:54 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: mail-qt0-f173.google.com Received: from mail-qt0-f173.google.com (HELO mail-qt0-f173.google.com) (209.85.216.173) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 03 Feb 2017 21:09:53 +0000 Received: by mail-qt0-f173.google.com with SMTP id w20so49803504qtb.1 for ; Fri, 03 Feb 2017 13:09:52 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=J/RcnKE/av/8z0cJirAlZUfBvlsj0ge2zvj4zGhsNu4=; b=U1ub00E1742uTF7NQfUgZo5IVitTOycPvqspcZ0hb6ubhvgeHRUq7q/K4W9q43HMgQ C4YjOyjaTlDb4nypM9JfL0NKBFYHGrOSM4mLIpTqg782bhl3uhV03gWbGGa264/lpQDd etLRY6p3WTNYCCI9XNeeqU82/adyf01nIoroz7MNka2Pg0h7l278Zd5CC0UEgSnybo2B KU5bPPnlZP9C2cH5IjgVmJUFUAN45aGmu8+YWFwiUkfvyGfEIty6wRJbBar7hmM+xV36 XGfKf9oSlksrEGpfnvGDSv69iF7GPY2Nl5leg7SVSuxG+V/BkTjE7EiS99Wx+cZK0hEk ZO5g== X-Gm-Message-State: AMke39mce0DFxHC2ZFrnxReX+YrtYKOWnP1DuI3l1C/ebJUdluPLmV5RgY+nZQn2EqlYAMlhMxXNuCox/wCzkw== X-Received: by 10.55.212.22 with SMTP id l22mr14768493qki.48.1486156190650; Fri, 03 Feb 2017 13:09:50 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.12.138.141 with HTTP; Fri, 3 Feb 2017 13:09:50 -0800 (PST) From: Rustam Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2017 21:09:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Is it OK to mount cygdrive on / ? To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-02/txt/msg00047.txt.bz2 I've added an extra / mountpoint in /etc/fstab in order to be able to access C: without /cygdrive like this: none /cygdrive cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0 0 none / cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0 0 It seems to work, I can access the C: drive with just /c. But normally an "ls /cygdrive" should list the drives, whereas "ls /" lists the contents of the Cygwin root. So it seems there are now two root mountpoints overlaying each other. So I was wondering if my approach is if this is technically undefined behavior and might conceivably break something or is it OK (less the drive listing limitation mentioned above). Thanks, Rustam -- 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