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Subject: Re: How to uniformly point to the root of a drive?
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On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 09:23:45AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Dave Korn wrote:
>>I'm not sure exactly what Thorsten is looking for in his original
>>question, so I don't know if it's relevant here or not, but it might be
>>useful for a portable installation to have a way to detect the drive
>>letter so as to be able to (re)assign the mountpoints (e.g.  from
>>Cygwin.bat) before starting up a shell or other cygwin app.  USB stick
>>drive letters change very often...
>
>Yes, there is a very real need for that kind of adjustment in such a
>situation, but you'd have to do it using native/batch scripting since
>trying to start a bash shell with /usr pointing off into empty space
>will probably not end well.  Since the question seemed to be looking
>for the POSIX form of the rootdir I assumed that the mount tables had
>already been frobbed.

Except that he mentioned /cygdrive/?  which doesn't require a root
directory.

I assumed that he was actually looking for a way to figure out where he
was running from so that he could set up the mount table.

cgf

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