[Mingw-users] Mount points

[Vincent R. <fo...@sm...>]

Hi,

I am trying to understand how mount points work and I need some help.
On some tutorial we can see that in fstab they recommend to add a mount
point
for mingw :

c:/mingw /mingw

but by default when I run mount command I get the following lines :

$ mount
C:\DOCUME~1\Vincent\LOCALS~1\Temp on /tmp type user (binmode,noumount)
C:\Developer\EasyMingw-devel on / type user (binmode,noumount)
C:\Developer\EasyMingw-devel on /usr type user (binmode,noumount)
a: on /a type user (binmode,noumount)
c: on /c type user (binmode,noumount)
d: on /d type user (binmode,noumount)
e: on /e type user (binmode,noumount)
h: on /h type user (binmode,noumount)

so install dir is mapped to / it means that if I enter something like
$>display_arg /mingw I get : C:/Developer/EasyMingw-devel/mingw

So I would like to know why it would be necessary to add an entry in
fstab?

Another question, when displaying mount points wouldn't be more logical to
display them with / instead of \ since this is how they are really mapped
?