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Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:51:32 -0500
From: Paul McFerrin <pmcferrin@columbus.rr.com>
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Subject: RE: Lesson on internals; what associates / with root
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Never mind.  It's one thing to "read" something that is written but 
something else when I make a "connection".  I have "connected".  The 
answer is: fstab.

Paul McFerrin wrote:
> It's time for a lesson in cygwin internals.
>
> What associates the root of a filesystem??
>
> I'm getting an invalid value for "/".  i.e.  When I do a "cd /", it 
> will fail.  I will get the error message: "cd: / - No such file or 
> directory".  Obviously there is something in the environment it 
> doesn't like.  The current directory is at what the new root *should* 
> be.  I'm running the latest Cygwin 1.7.1-1
>
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