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2049 points bpierre | 2 comments | 30 Mar 16 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.708s | source
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kiproping ◴[30 Mar 16 17:39 UTC] No.11391271[source]▶
> All of your Windows drives, like C: are mounted read/write directly under /mnt.

Its the real deal lads, congratulation Microsoft.

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1. niutech ◴[30 Mar 16 20:59 UTC] No.11392955[source]▶
MSYS2 mounts C:\ under /c/ and Cygwin under /cygdrive/c/ so what's the real deal?
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2. xorblurb ◴[30 Mar 16 21:28 UTC] No.11393176[source]▶
By default, but you can tell Cygwin to use /c/ though. Really handy when you switch between the two, and actually makes more sense (what else would be /c/ ?)