> -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Faylor > Subject: Re: Device names in /proc/mounts
> The "drive letters" above could be anything that > Windows maps to a drive letter. A drive does not necessarily > directly map to a physical device. That's why the proposal suggests using /dev/sdXY names only when a driver letter does indeed map to a hard disk. > /cygdrive is a user-settable value. So use whatever /cygdrive is actually set to. > Some users use other > values like "/dev" instead of /cygdrive. How does /dev/ttyS0 resolve in this case? Those users have already shot themselves in the foot. > Some people get rid > of the /cygdrive entirely and just map to /a. Which would be a rebind. /cygdrive (or the user's selected replacement) still exists, right? > We're not > going to introduce this level of recursive confusion to the > mount table handling. The proposal is sound. It works on Linux, after all. > Please give it a rest. We're not changing the mount table for you. Ok. Can you answer the following question: Given a volume label, how does one figure out where the corresponding volume has been mounted into the Cygwin namespace? Thanks, Konrad Schwarz -- 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
