X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FROM_LOCAL_NOVOWEL,HK_RANDOM_FROM,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Sebastien Vauban" Subject: Re: Portable shell code between Cygwin and Linux Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:22:50 +0200 Lines: 31 Message-ID: <80oc08m291.fsf@somewhere.org> References: <80hb65b3ue.fsf@somewhere.org> <20110729201651.GB13084@calimero.vinschen.de> <80ipqhljc3.fsf@somewhere.org> <20110801074352.GA14889@calimero.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Url: Under construction... X-Archive: encrypt User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (windows-nt) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Hi Corinna Vinschen, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > How is that different from using a drive letter like C:? The best you can do > is to create a mount point(*) under Cygwin which has the same path as under > Ubuntu. Then, just use the same POSIX paths on both systems. As I put all my files starting at c:/home/sva, I'd then to mount C: = / right? So that my home directory under Ubuntu (/home/sva) is the same under Cygwin (/home/sva = C:/home/sva). Though, the following did not succeed: #+begin_src sh $ mount C: / -o binary mount: warning: couldn't determine mount type. mount: /: Operation not permitted #+end_src Is this operation really not permitted? Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban -- 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