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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:27:14 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: How can I abbreviate /cygdrive/DRIVELETTER ?
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On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 02:13:37PM +0100, svartsjel AT gmx DOT net wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> As I often access different drives from within the bash I'm wondering if
> there's a quicker way to get on, say, drive l (a network drive) than entering
> 'cd /cygdrive/l'?

/cygdrive is the so called cygdrive prefix.  `mount --help' reveals:

  Usage: mount [OPTION] [<win32path> <posixpath>]
    [...]
    -c, --change-cygdrive-prefix  change the cygdrive path prefix to <posixpath>

so you can do sth. like

  mount --change-cygdrive-prefix /mnt

Corinna

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