Technical details A Cygwin-specific version of the Unix mount command allows mounting Windows paths as "filesystems" in the Unix file space. Initial mount points can be configured in /etc/fstab, which has a format very similar to Unix systems, except that Windows paths appear in place of devices. Filesystems can be mounted in binary mode (by default), or in text mode, which enables automatic conversion between LF and CRLF endings (which only affects programs that open files without explicitly specifying text or binary mode).
Technical details A Cygwin-specific version of the Unix mount command allows mounting Windows paths as "filesystems" in the Unix file space Initial mount points can be configured in /etc/fstab which has a format very similar to Unix systems except that Windows paths appear in place of devices Filesystems can be mounted in binary mode (by default) or in text mode which enables automatic conversion between LF and CRLF endings (which only affects programs that open files without explicitly specifying text or binary mode)