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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 09:51:41 -0500
From: David T-G <davidtg-cygwin AT justpickone DOT org>
To: "CygWin Users' List" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Cc: Jon LaBadie <jcyg AT jgcomp DOT com>
Subject: Re: Need help in umounting the auto mounted mount points
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Jon, et al --

=2E..and then Jon LaBadie said...
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% On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 10:31:49AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
% > Geetha schrieb:
% >=20
=2E..
% > > u: on /cygdrive/u type user (textmode,noumount)
% >=20
% > You can change the /cygdrive prefix to s.th. else (like '/').
%=20
% Really, did not realize this.  I've always made symlinks
% for all the drives to /cygdrive/X.

That's what I heard, too.  I was very happy with the B20 //c access and
quite confused and dismayed by the change to /cygwin/c when I first met
it.


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

I don't know about commonly, but this came up on the list a while back
with various inputs; see the archives.

I, like you, want /c to really be /c and not a link, both because of
having to make a link at all and of having to deal with them in ls later.
I took the hard route and changed /cygdrive to /c in the registry,
but the mount command lets you do it much more easily :-)


%=20
% Are there any issues, positive or negative, in doing so?

I haven't had any problems, other than tripping over scripts and having
to change "//" to "/" (but it would have had to change to "/cygwin"
anyway so it's still a win for me).


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% --=20
% Jon H. LaBadie                  jcyg AT jgcomp DOT com
%  JG Computing
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HTH & HAND

:-D
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