Deprecating Automount (was Re: Why not mount / at C: ?)

[Earnie Boyd]

--- Jason Tishler <Jason.Tishler@dothill.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 07:58:04AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > Here's a scenario for you to try, `cd /cygdrive/c && cd ..'.
> 
> The above is easily corrected -- just execute the following once:
> 
>     mkdir /cygdrive
> 
> BTW, I create mount point directories for all of my mount points
> (including the cygdrive prefix), because it makes bash's tab
> completion feature work consistently regardless of whether the name
> begins with a mount point, symlink, etc.
> 

That's confusing too.  I would expect to see the subdirectories of /cygdrive
and therefore a list of disk devices by letter.  I prefer mounting the device
and not needing the /cygdrive prefix at all.

Cheers,

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