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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 19:37:54 +0000 (UTC)
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Subject: Re: Overwriting /etc/fstab to simplify drivenames
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From: Kevin Schnitzius via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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 On Wednesday, April 23, 2025 at 10:08:52 AM EDT, Fergus Daly via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote: 
> For years I have overwritten the content of the default /etc/fstab with the one-liner
> none / cygdrive binary 0 0
> thus allowing drivenames of the style /d/ instead of /cygdrive/d/
> which syntax is (2nd) shorter but mainly (1st) easily mimics Linux syntax making scripts
> mutually transferable.
> However using the syntax /?/ to address all drives as in (say)
> $ rm -vrf /?/today/tmp
> or all similar, fails. Is there a way to render /?/ intelligible to Cygwin
> (maybe by rewriting /etc/fstab, again)?


localhost:~ >cat /etc/fstab:
c: /c some_fs binary,noacl,user 0 0
c: /cauto some_fs binary,acl,user 0 0
d: /d some_fs binary,noacl,user 0 0
e: /e some_fs binary,noacl,user 0 0
f: /f some_fs binary,noacl,user 0 0
g: /g some_fs binary,noacl,user 0 0
h: /h some_fs binary,noacl,user 0 0
k: /k some_fs binary,noacl,user 0 0
n: /n some_fs binary,noacl,user 0 0
v: /v some_fs binary,noacl,user 0 0
x: /x some_fs binary,noacl,user 0 0

localhost:~ >ls -d /?/tmp
/c/tmp/  /e/tmp/

Inelegant but it seems to work.

Kevin

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