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Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 12:42:31 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Why I can see windows drives?
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Peng Yu wrote:

> When I run "ls -a /", I can see the directory cygdrive.
> 
> BTW, when I run "locate abc", it only searchs with the directory of cygwin.
> How can I make it search all the harddrives on my computer?

/cygdrive is a mount point, it's not a directory.  It won't be shown in
ls, and find won't traverse it because there's no directory entry for it
in '/'.  If you wish to change this then you need to create a directory
entry to correspond to the mount point, e.g. "mkdir /cygdrive".

Brian

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