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 Reply-To: From: "Henry Holland" To: Subject: RE: Mounting Drives Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 11:40:20 +0200 Organization: BlueWave Productions Message-ID: <001801c2d98d$427ab7b0$9b910fc4@spoedniek> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal In-reply-to: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal I saw a suggestion somewhere: Create a folder on the cygwin drive for the drive you want to access, e.g. $ cd / $ mkdir d for the d:\ drive. Then mount /cygdrive/d/ on that folder: $ mount d:/ /d $ cd d ls should then give you a listing of your d:/ drive. I just tried it and it seems to work. To unmount it use: $ umount d:/ Hope this helps. Henry > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com > [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Steve > Sent: 20 February 2003 20:08 > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Mounting Drives > > > Hi; > > I'm on windows 2000 and I have a lot of drives ( [A-Z] ). > > To access a file on another drive I have to issue a "cd" > command to that > drive first. > > Is it possible to set things up so I do not have to do this? > > Please feel free to point me towards the appropiate place in the > docs....I didn't see what I was looking for in them. > > Thanks in advance > > Steve > > > > -- > 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/ > -- 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/