cd Command in ConEmu and MinGW

Question

I'm running MinGW bash in ConEmu and have set the HOME variable to my desired directory c/Users/<username> in the MinGW/msys/1.0/etc/profile file. The problem is that when I enter cd in ConEmu, it appends the HOME directory to the current one. For example, if I start ConEmu and run cd, it changes to the (nonexistant) directory c/Users/<username>/c/Users/<username>. Furthermore, once in this directory, running cd again results in the error bash.exe": cd: c/Users/<username>: No such file or directory.

This is not an issue in the Git Bash shell that came with MinGW, so I'm pretty sure this is an issue with ConEmu.

Answer 1

The root directory on Unix is /. Normally, Unix commands will try to open files and directories relative to the current directory if your path does not start with /.

It seems like running cd in bash is currently trying to look for a directory called c inside the current directory, rather than /c in the root of the filesystem.

Instead of setting your HOME to c/Users/<username>, try /c/Users/<username> (with the / at the start).