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 23:06:11 -0400 From: Jon LaBadie To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygdrive prefix confusion Message-ID: <20020621030611.GA15452@butch.jgcomp.com> Mail-Followup-To: Jon LaBadie , cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20020620220941.GA14451@butch.jgcomp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 03:19:53PM -0700, Michael A Chase wrote: > 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. Of the 280 lines of output, I presume the ones you mean refer to cygdrive. $ cygcheck -s | grep -i cygdrive . /cygdrive user binmode,noumount Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix Cygdrive default prefix: What clue should I have inferred from these 4 lines? -- Jon H. LaBadie jcyg@jgcomp.com JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) -- 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/