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On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 02:29:46PM +0200, Schwarz, Konrad wrote:
>Hi,
>
>in Linux, /proc/mounts maps device names (/dev/sda2) to mount points (/home).
>
>in Cygwin, /proc/mounts maps DOS names (C:) to cygwin names (/cygdrive/c).
>This is not terribly useful.

This is a literal dump of the Cygwin mount table.  It is terribly useful
if you want to know what Cygwin's mount mappings look like.

cgf

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