X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 10:19:32 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: best directory naming /dev/fs or cygdrive for both linux (ubuntu) and cygwin and SUA (a bit off top Message-ID: <20091203091932.GW8059@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1259785740.3847.ezmlm@cygwin.com> <4891C37578460441806BA1BB322EB9641289D7@camsbslak-01.cam-llc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4891C37578460441806BA1BB322EB9641289D7@camsbslak-01.cam-llc.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 Dec 2 22:51, Robert Sandefur wrote: > I sometimes need to run bash scripts with directory references developed > in cygwin on Linux (Ubuntu) and very occasionally on SUA (Billy linux). > Any opinions as to if using /dev/fs/C is better or worse than > /cygdrive/C when mounting windozes disks in linux? > (/dev/fs seems best for SUA) You should probably prefer the SUA local drive path prefix, for two reasons. The /dev/fs path is hardcoded in SUA, while you can easily set the cygdrive prefix to whatever you want in Cygwin, including /dev/fs. And the drive letter must be uppercase in SUA while it can be upper- or lowercase in Cygwin. So $ cd /dev/fs/C works in SUA and in Cygwin. 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