unts": # CYGWIN-ROOT/etc/fstab D:/foo /foo some_fs binary 0 0 D:/bar /bar some_fs binary 0 0 E:/grill /grill some_fs binary 0 0 In this way, top-level directories of each drive are available using identical names within Cygwin. Note that you also need to ensure that the standard Unix directories (like '/bin', '/lib', '/usr', '/etc') appear in the root of a drive. This means that you must install Cygwin itself into the 'C:/' root directory (or 'D:/', or 'E:/', etc)--instead of the recommended installation into 'C:/cygwin/'. In addition, all file names used in the build system must be relative, symlinks should not be used within the source or build directory trees, and all '-M*' options to 'gcc' except '-MMD' must be avoided. This is quite a fragile setup, but it has been in historical use, and so is documented here.