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RE: ls /dev/*
- From: "Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 15:20:08 -0000
- Subject: RE: ls /dev/*
> -----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......
cheers,
DaveK
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