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Subject: Re: Is it OK to mount cygdrive on / ?
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On 02/03/2017 04:10 PM, Rustam wrote:
> I've added an extra / mountpoint in /etc/fstab in order to be able to
> access C: without /cygdrive like this:
>
> none /cygdrive cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0 0
> none /         cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0 0
>
> It seems to work, I can access the C: drive with just /c.
>
> But normally an "ls /cygdrive" should list the drives, whereas "ls /"
> lists the contents of the Cygwin root. So it seems there are now two
> root mountpoints overlaying each other.
>
> So I was wondering if my approach is if this is technically undefined
> behavior and might conceivably break something or is it OK (less the
> drive listing limitation mentioned above).
>
> Thanks,
> Rustam

The way that I do it (and have for a long time) is a line in my 
.bash_profile file:
mount --change-cygdrive-prefix /

then ls /c does what you want
but ls / may not

HTH
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