Re: 1.7.1: Replacement for mount -f -u -b c: /

[Jeremy Bopp <jeremy at bopp dot net>]

On 5/5/2010 2:57 PM, Mathew Shember wrote:
> In the previous release, some of our engineers would change:
> 
> /cygwin/c/export/home/
> 
> To 
> 
> /export/home
> 
> To eliminate the "/c" they would use 
> 
> Mount -f -u -b c: /
> 
> This no longer works and I haven't figured out a work around.
> 
> Tried playing with fstab with no luck.

A symlink should work:

$ ln -s /cygwin/c/export /export

A mount will also work:

$ mkdir /export # To silence mount warnings...
$ mount C:/export /export

If what you really want is to dynamically map the entire contents of C:
into the Cygwin root directory, I don't have any suggestions.  People
have been known to install Cygwin directly to C:\ before, and that would
basically get you the mapping for free, but doing so is frowned upon here.

-Jeremy

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