RE: echo $HOME returns /cygdrive/c/documents and setting/mrane

["Hannu E K Nevalainen" <garbage_collector@telia.com>]

> From: Reini Urban
> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 7:41 PM

> Igor Pechtchanski schrieb:

> > Or 'mount -s c:/Documents\ and\ Settings/ /home', if you don't mind
> > putting up with '/home/All Users', etc...
>
> Sure, mount is the method which is used more often.
> And it is faster and easier.
> But it is not as transparent to the poor end-user as the symlinks.
> He will not see /home when doing "ls /"

YET another POV (YAPOV!); To be "safe" (THIS IS UNTESTED! BEWARE ;-)
with one little difference...

 $ cd /home
 $ tar --create --remove-files - * | \
   tar --directory="$(cygpath -u -H)" --extract -
 $ mount "$(cygpath -w -H)" /home

i.e. what I've attempted to describe here is, line by line:
 1 - work from any existing "/home" (assumes "/home/" exists!)
 2 - move any files to the new position
 3 - reposition /home

NOTE for the diff: leave /home/ as an empty directory, thus it WILL show up
with "ls" and in name completions (will work for anything *in* /home too)
and whatever you try...


/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59+16.37'N, 17+12.60'E

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