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Subject: Re: Redirecting $TEMP or a certain directory to /tmp
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On Jan 14 11:28, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Thomas Wiedmann wrote:
> >>>how can in Cygwin the directory, which is in Windows
> >>>configured as $TEMP, or
> >>>a certain other directory, be redirected to /tmp?
> >>
> >>man mount
> >
> >... didn't work: I tried
> > mount -f E:\Temp /tmp
> mount -f 'E:\Temp' /tmp
> to escape the backslash

Use the forward slash, just like in /etc/fstab:

  mount -f E:/Temp /tmp

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