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Subject: Re: best directory  naming /dev/fs or cygdrive for both linux  (ubuntu) and cygwin and SUA (a bit off top
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On Dec  2 22:51, Robert Sandefur wrote:
> I sometimes need to run bash scripts with directory references developed
> in cygwin on Linux (Ubuntu) and very occasionally on SUA (Billy linux).
> Any opinions as to if using /dev/fs/C is better or worse than
> /cygdrive/C when mounting windozes disks in linux? 
> (/dev/fs seems best for SUA)

You should probably prefer the SUA local drive path prefix, for two
reasons.  The /dev/fs path is hardcoded in SUA, while you can easily set
the cygdrive prefix to whatever you want in Cygwin, including /dev/fs.
And the drive letter must be uppercase in SUA while it can be upper-
or lowercase in Cygwin.  So

  $ cd /dev/fs/C

works in SUA and in Cygwin.


Corinna

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