Greetings, Martin Wege! > On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 8:43 PM Brian Inglis <brian.ing...@shaw.ca> wrote: >> >> On 2023-08-07 10:52, Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote: >> > What is the official cygwin way to find a free drive letter, which can >> > be used in a script to mount a drive? >> >> Just use the Windows UNC network path directly on Cygwin with '/' not '\'. >> >> For Windows, it may still be NET USE * \\... but have not used it in decades! >> >> Cygwin should pick it up and automount it under /proc/cygdrive/?/ but see >> disclaimer above.
> So it would be a valid solution in bash to loop from a-z in > /proc/cygdrive/$letter/ and see whether this is a dir, right? If you want a temporary bind, A: and B: are often free on modern systems. Or you could just make a junction to a directory instead. mklink /J $( cygdrive -aw $(mktemp …) ) \\server\share -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Friday, September 15, 2023 15:57:10 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
