[ale] [OT] Cygwin and mounted drives

[Jeff Hubbs]

Does /cygwin/n appear when you start a new Cygwin window after you've 
mounted the partition?

On 4/17/14, 7:23 AM, Jeff Layton wrote:
> 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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