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Re: How to uniformly point to the root of a drive?


On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 06:20:51PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>* Dave Korn (Sun, 20 May 2007 17:16:43 +0100)
>> On 20 May 2007 17:11, Brian Dessent wrote:
>> > Dave Korn wrote:
>> > 
>> >>   This relies on the mountpoints being set correctly, which might not work
>> >> if your drive letter changes ...
>> > 
>> > Well if that is the case and / points to the wrong dir then I don't see
>> > how you can be using Cygwin at all,
>> 
>>   I'm not sure exactly what Thorsten is looking for in his original question,
>
>Something like "cat /cygdrive/g/autorun.inf" from a shell script. 
>
>> 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.
>
>I already do that (something like "mount -fu %~d0\cygwin /") in a 
>batch script. Unfortunately the %~d0" trick is a Cmd thing so I can't 
>directly use it from bash or zsh.

So it sounds like Brian's method would work then wouldn't it?

cgf

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