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Re: Need help in umounting the auto mounted mount points


On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 10:31:49AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Geetha schrieb:
> 
> > I  have  recently  downloaded the  cygwin ver  1.3.10 and I have noticed
> > that it automatically mounts all windows mapped  drive as follows
> 
> Yes, this is great;)
> 
> > c: on   /cygdrive/c type user (textmode,noumount)
> > m: on  /cygdrive/m type user (textmode,noumount)
> > u: on /cygdrive/u type user (textmode,noumount)
> 
> You can change the /cygdrive prefix to s.th. else (like '/').

Really, did not realize this.  I've always made symlinks
for all the drives to /cygdrive/X.

I'd prefer an ls -l of /c to show the drive, not the link :)
Do cygwin users commonly change the /cygdrive prefix to '/'?

Are there any issues, positive or negative, in doing so?

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