How can I abbreviate /cygdrive/DRIVELETTER ?

Thu Jan 16 18:14:00 GMT 2003

On 2003年1月16日 svartsjel@gmx.net wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>> As I often access different drives from within the bash I'm wondering if
> there's a quicker way to get on, say, drive l (a network drive) than entering
> 'cd /cygdrive/l'?
> I alias'd '/cygdrive/l' to 'l' which works fine for cd, but not for commands
> like chmod, cp, mv etc. Among others I'd like to use the automatic command
> line completion which doesn't work for /cygdrive/... either.
> Any suggestions?
>> Best wishes,
> Svartsjel

Try
$ mkdir /l
$ mount l:/ /l
for details, "man mount".
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