Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 10:49:45 +0000 Message-ID: <7098-Wed12Feb2003104945+0000-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Maur=EDcio?= Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: cygdrive In-Reply-To: References: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id h1CAocM02448 On Wednesday 12 Feb 03, Maurício writes: > Hi, > > Why can't we see /cygdrive with ls in /, and also can't see it using > word completion in bash (i.e., typing cd /cyg and pressing tab)? > > Thanks, > Maurício I guess this belongs in the FAQ. (It's not there already?) /cygrive is not really "there" in the sense that ls or bash need them to be for the actions you describe. It's an internal means to access unmounted drives. That's all. Regards, David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/