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Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 07:43:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Mike Arms <mike_arms AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: Important upcoming change in Cygwin 1.3.3
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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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?

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Mike Arms
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