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.. just to confirm. Booting from a Linux live CD, and with Cygwin [1.7] 
located on a mobile drive mounted at /m, I get

~> ls -al /m
total 635088
drwxr-xr-x  15 root root      4096 1970-01-01 01:00 .
drwxr-xr-x  15 root root      4096 1970-01-01 01:00 .
drwxr-xr-x  21 root root         0 2010-03-01 11:22 ..
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root    204800 2010-02-05 09:06 bin
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root      4096 2010-02-05 09:06 dev
drwxr-xr-x  52 root root      8192 2010-02-05 09:07 etc
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root      4096 2010-03-01 11:20 home
drwxr-xr-x 113 root root    102400 2010-02-05 09:15 lib
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root      4096 2010-02-05 09:15 opt
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root      4096 2010-03-01 11:23 Recycled
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root      4096 2010-02-05 09:15 sbin
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root      4096 2010-02-05 09:15 srv
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root      4096 2010-02-05 09:15 tmp
drwxr-xr-x  18 root root      4096 2010-02-05 09:55 usr
drwxr-xr-x  14 root root      4096 2010-02-05 09:55 var

Note extraordinary double occurrence of directory named ".".

"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes .." (etc etc)

Fergus


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