Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 15:19:53 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) From: Michael A Chase Subject: Re: cygdrive prefix confusion To: Jon LaBadie , cygwin@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: INLINE References: <20020620220941.GA14451@butch.jgcomp.com> In-Reply-To: <20020620220941.GA14451@butch.jgcomp.com> Reply-To: Michael A Chase Message-Id: On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 18:09:41 -0400 Jon LaBadie wrote: > I've reset my cygdrive prefix to "/" rather than "/cygdrive". > For interactive use this seems fine. > > However, I'm running some backup software that accesses the > system from a remote server. That software does not see the > windows drives as /c, /d, ... (i.e., my new prefix), but still > sees them as /cygdrive/c etc. as if I did not change the prefix. > > Any idea why the difference? The output from 'cygcheck -s' would probably give you a hint. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/