using cygwin 1.7.1 in a terminal running on the windows machine
$ mount C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto) C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto) C:/cygwin on / type ntfs (binary,auto) C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user) E: on /cygdrive/e type nwfs (binary,posix=0,user) F: on /cygdrive/f type nwfs (binary,posix=0,user) G: on /cygdrive/g type nwfs (binary,posix=0,user) H: on /cygdrive/h type nwfs (binary,posix=0,user) I: on /cygdrive/i type nwfs (binary,posix=0,user) K: on /cygdrive/k type nwfs (binary,posix=0,user) P: on /cygdrive/p type nwfs (binary,posix=0,user) V: on /cygdrive/v type nwfs (binary,posix=0,user) Z: on /cygdrive/z type nwfs (binary,posix=0,user) $ df Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on C:/cygwin/bin 38G 18G 20G 48% /usr/bin C:/cygwin/lib 38G 18G 20G 48% /usr/lib C:/cygwin 38G 18G 20G 48% / C: 38G 18G 20G 48% /cygdrive/c E: 196G 107G 89G 55% /cygdrive/e F: 19G 5.3G 14G 29% /cygdrive/f G: 98G 69G 30G 70% /cygdrive/g H: 142G 112G 31G 79% /cygdrive/h I: 98G 69G 30G 70% /cygdrive/i K: 49G 35G 15G 71% /cygdrive/k P: 49G 22G 28G 44% /cygdrive/p V: 943G 23G 921G 3% /cygdrive/v Z: 19G 5.3G 14G 29% /cygdrive/z $ ll /cygdrive/ total 0 drwxrwxr-x+ 1 Administrators SYSTEM 0 2010-03-14 10:21 c drwxr-xr-x 1 rray Domain Users 0 2010-03-11 14:34 e drwxr-xr-x 1 rray Domain Users 0 2010-03-13 23:00 f drwxr-xr-x 1 rray Domain Users 0 2010-03-15 07:30 g drwxr-xr-x 1 rray Domain Users 0 2009-09-03 17:17 h drwxr-xr-x 1 rray Domain Users 0 2010-03-14 13:25 i drwxr-xr-x 1 rray Domain Users 0 2010-03-14 12:45 k drwxr-xr-x 1 rray Domain Users 0 2010-03-01 07:11 p drwxr-xr-x 1 rray Domain Users 0 2009-10-15 10:09 v drwxr-xr-x 1 rray Domain Users 0 2010-03-13 23:07 z and i can read and write the files and directories on these mount points if i ssh to the windows machine $ mount C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto) C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto) C:/cygwin on / type ntfs (binary,auto) C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user) E: on /cygdrive/e type unknown (binary,posix=0,user) F: on /cygdrive/f type unknown (binary,posix=0,user) G: on /cygdrive/g type unknown (binary,posix=0,user) H: on /cygdrive/h type unknown (binary,posix=0,user) I: on /cygdrive/i type unknown (binary,posix=0,user) K: on /cygdrive/k type unknown (binary,posix=0,user) P: on /cygdrive/p type unknown (binary,posix=0,user) V: on /cygdrive/v type unknown (binary,posix=0,user) Z: on /cygdrive/z type unknown (binary,posix=0,user) $ df Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on C:/cygwin/bin 38G 18G 20G 48% /usr/bin C:/cygwin/lib 38G 18G 20G 48% /usr/lib C:/cygwin 38G 18G 20G 48% / C: 38G 18G 20G 48% /cygdrive/c df: `/cygdrive/e': No such file or directory df: `/cygdrive/f': No such file or directory df: `/cygdrive/g': No such file or directory df: `/cygdrive/h': No such file or directory df: `/cygdrive/i': No such file or directory df: `/cygdrive/k': No such file or directory df: `/cygdrive/p': No such file or directory df: `/cygdrive/v': No such file or directory df: `/cygdrive/z': No such file or directory $ ll /cygdrive/ total 0 drwxrwxr-x+ 1 Administrators SYSTEM 0 2010-03-14 10:21 c what am i missing i am sure you can see that i am very new to cygwin where to find documentation on this is appreciated thanks Richard -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
