Re: Portable shell code between Cygwin and Linux

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Aug  2 14:22, Sebastien Vauban wrote:
> Hi Corinna Vinschen,
> 
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > How is that different from using a drive letter like C:? The best you can do
> > is to create a mount point(*) under Cygwin which has the same path as under
> > Ubuntu. Then, just use the same POSIX paths on both systems.
> 
> As I put all my files starting at c:/home/sva, I'd then to mount
> 
>     C: = /
> 
> right?

Wrong.  Don't change the root mount point.

> So that my home directory under Ubuntu (/home/sva) is the same under Cygwin
> (/home/sva = C:/home/sva).
> 
> Though, the following did not succeed:
> 
> #+begin_src sh
> $ mount C: / -o binary
> mount: warning: couldn't determine mount type.
> mount: /: Operation not permitted
> #+end_src
> 
> Is this operation really not permitted?

Don't do this.  Add a mount point to /home to your fstab.

Did you *read* the User's Guide?  In my previous mail I pasted two
links for your convenience.  For good measure I add another one:

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#cygdrive
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mount


Corinna

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