X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:37:10 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Redirecting $TEMP or a certain directory to /tmp Message-ID: <20100114163710.GD9964@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4B4EF1E6 DOT 50903 AT towo DOT net> <20100114123730 DOT GC14511 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100114123730.GC14511@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 01:37:30PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Jan 14 11:28, Thomas Wolff wrote: >> Thomas Wiedmann wrote: >> >>>how can in Cygwin the directory, which is in Windows >> >>>configured as $TEMP, or >> >>>a certain other directory, be redirected to /tmp? >> >> >> >>man mount >> > >> >... didn't work: I tried >> > mount -f E:\Temp /tmp >> mount -f 'E:\Temp' /tmp >> to escape the backslash > >Use the forward slash, just like in /etc/fstab: > > mount -f E:/Temp /tmp And, if you want this to be permanent you need to *put* it in /etc/fstab. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple