X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 12:34:23 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: How to uniformly point to the root of a drive? Message-ID: <20070520163423.GA9211@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <46506BA1 DOT C3502CCD AT dessent DOT net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46506BA1.C3502CCD@dessent.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 08:39:13AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Thorsten Kampe wrote: >>is there a way to consistently point (in a script for instance) to the >>root of a removable drive (flash drive)? >> >>The root could be /cygdrive/g on one computer and on the other >>/cygdrive/f (I have no control of the drive letters). One solution >>would be to install Cygwin to \ (instead of the standard \cygwin) but >>for clarity's sake I would like to keep the Cygwin stuff in a directory >>of its own. > >I assume you mean the root directory of the drive on which Cygwin is >installed, i.e. the drive containing /: > >echo "root dir of / is $(cygpath "$(cygpath -m / | cut -b1-3)")" > >This will fail for UNC paths and so on, but you can check for that I >suppose. You can use any arbitrary path in place of /, but be sure to >quote as necessary. I wouldn't expect cygwin to be "installed" (as in a mount table existing) when running from a removable drive, though. In any event, if neither of the two described methods work then we'll probably need more clarification on what is being attempted here. 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/