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Re:How the Windows Subsystem for Linux Redirects Syscalls by stordoff on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @10:49PM (#11867253)
> 1. The use of drive letters A-Z for file system access.

Why is this a problem? As a user, I've always preferred to have drive letters - it makes it immediately clear if, for example, I'm moving files between different physical drives.

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Re:How the Windows Subsystem for Linux Redirects Syscalls by ygra on Thursday June 09, 2016 @01:28AM (#11867720)
Considering mount points, reparse points, and things like subst, I doubt you can ever really know that. Granted, the deviations from the normal scheme are your own making as a user, but so are the places where you mount volumes from different physical drives in a single root hierarchy.
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