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Re: ls /dev/*


On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 03:20:08PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
>> Sent: 03 November 2004 15:13
>
>> On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 10:07:41PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>
>> >Actually I change the cygdrive prefix to dev. Just seems to 
>> make sense 
>> >to me that C: would be /dev/c as apposed to /cygdrive/c, 
>> which is longer 
>> >to type. When I ls /dev I get:
>> >
>> >$ ls /dev
>> >c/  d/  z/
>> >
>> >A C, D and Z drive (the Z drive is to my backup partition on 
>> my Linux box).
>> 
>> While, you are welcome to redefine /cygdrive any way you want, the unix
>> paradigm does not put filesystems under /dev.  That is for devices.
>
>  Indeed.
>
>  OTOH, renaming your cygdrive prefix to "mnt" might make quite a lot of
>sense, even if it's not strictly the same.  Kinda like having a handy
>automounter......

Yup.

cgf

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