Hi Heiko, I have changed the external drive and seen that the new one works. The issue is, I guess, that the first drive was named "My Passport", with a space in it, while the second one is "Iomega". Spaces in drive names are not accepted by Linux, which could explain why they are a problem also with git bash (even if bash could access them using what is passed to it, which is a drive letter, and not the drive name). Thank you -Angelo On 23 November 2012 16:31, Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 08:07:55AM +0100, Angelo Borsotti wrote: >> I have attached an external disc, which appears on Windows as drive f: >> in Windows Explorer. >> Right-clicking on it displays a context menu showing (among other >> items) Git Init Here, Git Gui and >> Git Bash. The first two work properly on that drive. >> However, the git bash does not. Not even the one that is run from the icon: >> >> $ cd f: >> sh.exe": cd: f:: No such file or directory >> >> >> Is there any way to make it access drive f? > > Try using the environment variable MSYS_WATCH_FSTAB=YesPlease. > > We have an optimization in msys that does not update the virtually > mounted folders and makes msys executable startups faster. I had similar > issues with mounted disk images. > > The other alternative: After having the external disc mounted logout and > login again that AFAIR that should also help. > > Cheers Heiko -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html