[ale] [OT] Cygwin and mounted drives

[Lightner, Jeff]

I do use Cygwin but mainly for its X11 for X-Windows from UNIX/Linux back to my Windows 7 laptop and haven't used sshfs with it.

Since Cygwin is nearly the same as a full distro with many packages available it may actually include sshfs in its repository.   If you run the "setup.exe" that came with your Cygwin install you can expand the various areas it has to see what is available for install.  If so you might be able to mount the sshfs directly under Cygwin.

Another idea would be to use nfs unless you're married to the idea of sshfs (which you might be due it being more secure).

What does "df -hP" show when you're in the Cygwin terminal?






-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Layton
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 7:21 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: [ale] [OT] Cygwin and mounted drives

Good morning,

It appears that I can ask this question here but I put on my flame-proof undies just in case.

I've installed cygwin on my WIndows 8.0 laptop. I'm using it to run some disk/storage benchmarks (IOzone). I've built and run IOzone successfully against the laptop drive (C:) but here comes the complicating part. I'm using something called Dokan SSHFS to mount a Linux file system on the laptop.
It uses SSH (STFP actually) and FUSE to mount a remote file system on the client. DOKAN SSH is the Windows version of SSHFS for Linux.

I can mount the Linux partition just fine on the laptop and it's mounted as N:. I can see the files, open them, etc. But when I try to "cd" to the drive in cygwin, it can't find it.
I tried "cd /cygdrive/n" and it doesn't exist. I've googled around a bit and there are places that talk about mounting network drives (SMB I assume), but nothing about SSHFS.

I realize the question is rather specific and niche, but I have virtually no experience with cygwin except for a couple of hours.

TIA!

Jeff

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