Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 13:06:24 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: echo $HOME returns /cygdrive/c/documents and setting/mrane Message-ID: <20040507170624.GB5196@coe.bosbc.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4099FBD9.6060408@x-ray.at> <409A78A8.8000508@x-ray.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <409A78A8.8000508@x-ray.at> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 07:40:56PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: >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 /" mkdir /home mount -b "C:/Documents and Settings" /home Either that or: mkdir /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home if you have already executed the mount. Then "ls /" shows the home directory. This is, IMO, closer to the UNIX way of doing things than using a symlink. cgf -- 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/