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Date: | Sun, 20 May 2007 09:23:45 -0700 |
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Dave Korn wrote: > I'm not sure exactly what Thorsten is looking for in his original question, > so I don't know if it's relevant here or not, but it might be useful for a > portable installation to have a way to detect the drive letter so as to be > able to (re)assign the mountpoints (e.g. from Cygwin.bat) before starting up a > shell or other cygwin app. USB stick drive letters change very often... Yes, there is a very real need for that kind of adjustment in such a situation, but you'd have to do it using native/batch scripting since trying to start a bash shell with /usr pointing off into empty space will probably not end well. Since the question seemed to be looking for the POSIX form of the rootdir I assumed that the mount tables had already been frobbed. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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