X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:32:41 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ls / does not show /c with cygdrive prefix=/ Message-ID: <20090928113241.GO30851@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1254099878.2604.21.camel@mward-laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1254099878.2604.21.camel@mward-laptop> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-02-20) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Sep 28 11:04, Mikel Ward wrote: > Hi All > > If I use a standard install with the cygdrive prefix as /cygdrive, the > drive letters appear in a directory listing: > > $ ls /cygdrive > c d w > > But if I change cygdrive to /, they don't: > > $ mount -c / > $ ls / > Cygwin.bat bin dev home opt sbin usr > Cygwin.ico cygdrive etc lib proc tmp var > [ends] > > But of course, they are there: > > $ ls /c > $Recycle.Bin PerfLogs > [...] > > That's as Administrator. Adding the -s flag to mount doesn't help, > neither does a reboot. > > Is there any way to make /c, etc. appear in the listing? Manually, yes, automatically, no. You can change your cygdrive folder to any other folder and the drives will show up there. This has only been disabled for the root folder for performance reasons. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple