X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_PGP_SIGNED,KHOP_THREADED,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <507F4AD9.5070001@dancol.org> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:18:33 -0700 From: Daniel Colascione <dancol AT dancol DOT org> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Mount Windows C drive as POSIX root? References: <1446995784 DOT 289823 DOT 1350498100716 DOT JavaMail DOT root AT genarts DOT com> <1524462524 DOT 20121018035836 AT mtu-net DOT ru> In-Reply-To: <1524462524.20121018035836@mtu-net.ru> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigCEC0F6A361CAD35C84B45C2B" X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com> List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com> List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/> List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs> Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com --------------enigCEC0F6A361CAD35C84B45C2B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 10/17/2012 4:58 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Gary Oberbrunner! >=20 >> I understand about not installing cygwin in c:\. But I really want a si= ngle >> filesystem, so cygwin's / is Windows c:/, and cygwin /Program\ Files is >> Windows /Program Files and so on. >=20 > Having single filesystem, and having cygwin mounted on root is not the sa= me. It's awfully close. >> I have an environment with lots of non-cygwin tools and translating paths >> between them is not workable.=20 >=20 > Especially not the same, when you start to interoperate with non-cygwin > applications, and when you start to update your Cygwin installation. >=20 > Heed my suggestion, don't do it. It works fine for me. I just use c:\bin as /bin, c:\etc as /etc, and so on. --------------enigCEC0F6A361CAD35C84B45C2B Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlB/StwACgkQ17c2LVA10VsS8QCgx2JkNKAKBHNcLUilnOWexx7L KlQAoNUQb4Q98LTiQLCN2RD4DTOuSoW+ =RndW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigCEC0F6A361CAD35C84B45C2B--