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by unilynx 1860 days ago
The annoying part is that now that '-' stands for '/', you need to use '\x2d' for '-'. Which is pretty annoying when manipulating mount names during the shell.

I wish they had picked ':' for '/' instead of '-'. That one would be pretty uncommon to find in a mount path, and has a bit of precedent on OSX.

(Who would ever mount anything on a path with a colon anyway? That would be as silly as using slashes instead of dashes for options)

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C:\ much?
I’m pretty sure whoever came up with that was also using slashes for options. Someone was gonna bite :)