Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/05/25/04:45:30
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> I wanted to give a heads up to everyone that the //c method
> for accessing drives will finally be removed in Cygwin 1.3.3.
> We've been threatening to do this for more than a year and
> the time has finally come.
>
...snip..
>
> If this is too cumbersome, you can change /cygdrive to whatever
> you want. Many people seem to like to have the drives accessible
> as a directory so that c: == /c . The easiest way to default to
> this behavior is to do this:
>
> mount -s --change-cygdrive-prefix /
>
> Or conversely, if you think that /cygdrive is too short and too
> hard to remember, you could also do something like:
>
> mount -s --change-cygdrive-prefix /bobs-disk-devices
>
> Then, you can access drives as:
>
> ls /bobs-disk-devices/c/foo
>
> Note that the default "mount mode" for these devices remains as "text
> mounts". If you want to change the mount mode to be "binmode', you
> can do this:
>
> mount -b -s --change-cygdrive-prefix /
>
however even if you do
mount -f -b -s --change-cygdrive-prefix /cygdrive
to try and change from user level to global level
mount still reports ( after logging out and back in again and inetd not
running prior to logout )
d: on /cygdrive/d type user (binmode,noumount)
k: on /cygdrive/k type user (binmode,noumount)
l: on /cygdrive/l type user (binmode,noumount)
t: on /cygdrive/t type user (binmode,noumount)
Keep up the good work.
TVM
Don Sharp
> For a more advanced description on what these options do, check out
> the cygwin documentation at http://www.cygwin.com/ .
>
> cgf
>
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