Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 10:33:12 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: ls /dev/* Message-ID: <20041103153312.GK31627@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20041103151252 DOT GD31627 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 03:20:08PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote: >> -----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...... Yup. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/