Re: Important upcoming change in Cygwin 1.3.3

["Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>]

Hallo Mike,

Am 2001-11-02 um 16:43 schriebst du:

> On 2001/09/01, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>If you don't like the /cygdrive/x method, you can change /cygdrive
>>to anything that you want, including '/'.  The method for doing
>>this is:
>>      mount -s --change-cygdrive-prefix /foo
>>So, "ls /foo/c" will display the contents of your C: drive.
>>
>>If you do this instead:
>>      mount -s --change-cygdrive-prefix /
>>then "ls /c" will display the contents of your C: drive.

> I tried the "mount -s --change-cygdrive-prefix /" suggestion
> from the bash command line. But then "ls /c" reports:

>     ls: /c: No such file or directory

> Any suggestions?

It was just answered a few postings before yours came in.
What tells you your mount output?

You created a system mount, but the old cyggdrive mount is a user mount,
usermounts override system mounts.

Ciao,

Gerrit P. Haase                            mailto:gp@familiehaase.de
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