Browsing Folders in MSYS

Question

This will be the toughest question of the day. How do I navigate through my Windows folder structure within the MSYS shell? When I start the shell, all I see is a '~'. I type 'ls' and the folder is empty. I just want to know how to get to my c drive.

Answer 1

cd /c/ to access C:

cd /d/ for D:

etc.

Answer 2

use df to see all mount point so you can navigate to them. my df output shows below:

    Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
C:\Users\Sam\AppData\Local\Temp
                      76694276  46239412  30454864  61% /tmp
C:\MinGW\msys\1.0     76694276  46239412  30454864  61% /usr
C:\MinGW\msys\1.0     76694276  46239412  30454864  61% /
C:\MinGW\build32      76694276  46239412  30454864  61% /build32
C:\MinGW\build64      76694276  46239412  30454864  61% /build64
C:\MinGW\local32      76694276  46239412  30454864  61% /local32
C:\MinGW\local64      76694276  46239412  30454864  61% /local64
C:\MinGW\mingw32      76694276  46239412  30454864  61% /mingw32
C:\MinGW\mingw64      76694276  46239412  30454864  61% /mingw64
C:\MinGW\opt          76694276  46239412  30454864  61% /opt
C:\MinGW\src          76694276  46239412  30454864  61% /src
c:                    76694276  46239412  30454864  61% /c
d:                    62471380  33791832  28679548  55% /d
e:                   163839996 129349800  34490196  79% /e
f:                   266237948 222816904  43421044  84% /f
g:                   407410152 346169248  61240904  85% /g
h:                    65328288  22612768  42715520  35% /h
i:                   122881152  54066728  68814424  44% /i
j:                   409601240 176372780 233228460  44% /j
k:                   378949628  56153980 322795648  15% /k

Answer 3

Your C: drive is mounted on /c automatically by MinGW, just type cd /c to get in.