Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/06/13/21:28:35
At 06:05 AM 6/13/2005, you wrote:
>Mikael wrote:
>
>> But say I type /c<tab>, instead of stopping at c as I thought would happen,
>> /cyg is completed and these three are displayed:
>> cygdrive cygwin.bat cygwin.ico
>>
>> Why? Why doesn't it stop at c? Have I done something wrong with my mounts or
>> is this as it should be?
>
>Tab completion doesn't know about mounts, only directories and files.
>Since there is not actually a directory in the root named 'c'
>(underneath the mount), tab completion doesn't consider it. In other
>words, if you do "ls /" you won't see /c, which is essentially all that
>tab completion does.
>
>You can get the desired behavior though by actually creating a directory
>there. But you can't do this while /c is mounted, so you'll have to
>temporarily set the cygdrive to something else.
>
>$ mount -c /cygdrive
>$ mkdir /c
>$ mount -c /
And it's standard UNIX practice to create the mount point directory first.
Or, more correctly, you *have* to create the directory first. Cygwin doesn't
require you to create the directory before mounting to it but doing so
doesn't have much in the way of advantages, as you've noticed.
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