Dave Korn wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote on 20 August 2008 19:22:
Ralph Hempel wrote:
Is there a way to create a symlink of a directory on a local
hard drive to the cygwin /home/username/ directory?
No, not across volumes.
Huh? I must be misunderstanding what you mean here:
/ $ df .
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
C:\cygwin 151974868 122610860 29364008 81% /
/ $ cd /cygdrive/c
/cygdrive/c $ df .
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
c: 151974868 122610860 29364008 81% /cygdrive/c
/cygdrive/c $ ln -s /cygdrive/e link-to-e-drive
/cygdrive/c $ cd link-to-e-drive
/cygdrive/c/link-to-e-drive $ df .
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
e: 104864252 71154064 33710188 68% /cygdrive/e
Ooooh. This is nice. How does Cygiwn keep track of this link? Does
it survive a reboot?
Ralph
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