Cygwin cannot find my files

Question

I just downloaded CYGWIN for Windows 8. I use it because my professor wants us to do everything through the command line, and I'm used to installing linux on computers in our laboratories, rather than trying to understand the cmd commands that come with linux . When I open CYGWIN and type "ls", nothing appears. When I type "cd ../ ..", it takes me to what seems like a file structure for CYGWIN, and after that it will no longer let me go up. I feel this is probably just a setup error. Someone please help me.

Answer 1

From cygwin you can go to C drive:

cd /cygdrive/c/ 

Check here: for a permanent solution .

As already mentioned, create a directory for each of your drives and mount them:

 > cd / > mkdir c > mount c: /c > mkdir d > mount d: /d > ...etc 

Now you can directly go to c :, for example:

 > cd /c 

Answer 2

I just want to add some quick syntax for all UNIX programmers.

 $ cd c: "It will give U shortcut access to /cygdrive/c" $ cd d: "It will give U shortcut access to /cygdrive/c"