Re: Newbie Cygdrive questions

[Richard <richard at KarmannGhia dot org>]

On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, mrushton wrote:
> To access this shared X drive under Cygwin it seems I have to do this :
>
> /cygdrive/X/INBOUND/CWSCRIPTS/myscript.sh
>
>
> Is this correct ?  Is there a better way ?
>
> And C: seems to be /cygdrive/C/

A BETTER way?

This has nothing per se to do with Cygwin, but, briefly:

Standardize all your systems on something YOU can control. For example, I 
always create a top-level directory called l (that's the letter, not the 
numeral) which stands for "local", and another called nfs, which simply 
means a remote mount - could be real nfs or Samba - and then make links 
within these directories to wherever they need to go. That way, all disk 
space is available via either:

/l/<whatever>

or

/nfs/<whatever>

as appropriate.

And there's never any confusion over which is which - and drive letters 
can be completely avoided as desired, or not.

...All (many!) good System Administrators do things similar to this...

Richard

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