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 Message-ID: <000701c2c643$25729550$78d96f83@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Rob Siklos" , References: <34385CBC5E8E664EB0007814636AB36A677AD2@exchange1.dimensions.com> <00a801c2c640$38e62a50$78d96f83@pomello> <00b901c2c642$0dd550a0$a50aa8c0@adexainc.com> Subject: Re: Save typing /cygdrive/c? Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 20:32:01 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Rob Siklos wrote: > running "mount --change-cygdrive-prefix /" will make all your drives > be subdirectories of "/" instead of "/cygdrive". And then when you run some script which expects /cygdrive, it will break. OK, the script is what is broken, but the path of least resistance is to use symlinks instead. Max. -- 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/