On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 06:00:28PM +0100, fergus wrote: >Thanks for your very rapid and informative responses, and also the >suggestions and references http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html#TOC53) >(How can I access other drives?) to using mounts rather than symlinks. > >Alol the same I've got a small preference for > ln -s /cygdrive/h h >over > mkdir /h; mount -fsb h:/ /h >which is probably easily addressed, but it is as follows. > >Both instructions are intended to be issue-once-only. With the former >arrangement (symlinks) the command > find / >(usually with qualifications of course) finds only folders on the root >filesystem. If I want to include devices then additionally I > mkdir /cygdrive >and lo! the command find / includes all the linked devices. Whereas, >with the latter arrangement (mounts) the command > find / >always includes the mounted devices; not usually, or certainly not >often, what I want.
Sounds like you need to investigate "find -xdev". -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
