Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <7C05304CF121D411BF4C0008C75D722B0136310F@ns9850.swisslife.ch> From: Mathis Severin To: "'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'" Subject: Accessing local hard disks Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 08:30:45 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Hello For accessing local hard disk there are several possibilities. To make the task easy you can mount the different disks into the Cygwin file system or you can create symbolic links in the root of the file system using /cygdrive/c. My questions are: - Which is the prefered way to choose ? - What is the difference between these two solutions (pros and cons) ? - Concerning performance, in what cases is the symbolic link the worse solution ? (Only when the link has to be resolved or even when a linked drive is the current working directory) - When defining the symbolic links, what is the difference between using /cygdrive/c and //c ? Thanks for your comments Severin Mathis -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com