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From: "Dave Korn" <dk AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: ls /dev/*
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 15:20:08 -0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
> Sent: 03 November 2004 15:13

> On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 10:07:41PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:

> >Actually I change the cygdrive prefix to dev. Just seems to 
> make sense 
> >to me that C: would be /dev/c as apposed to /cygdrive/c, 
> which is longer 
> >to type. When I ls /dev I get:
> >
> >$ ls /dev
> >c/  d/  z/
> >
> >A C, D and Z drive (the Z drive is to my backup partition on 
> my Linux box).
> 
> While, you are welcome to redefine /cygdrive any way you want, the unix
> paradigm does not put filesystems under /dev.  That is for devices.

  Indeed.

  OTOH, renaming your cygdrive prefix to "mnt" might make quite a lot of
sense, even if it's not strictly the same.  Kinda like having a handy
automounter......

    cheers, 
      DaveK
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