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: <5.2.0.9.2.20030127150449.02847438@pop3.cris.com> X-Sender: rrschulz@pop3.cris.com Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:07:18 -0800 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Randall R Schulz Subject: Re: Save typing /cygdrive/c? In-Reply-To: <000701c2c643$25729550$78d96f83@pomello> References: <34385CBC5E8E664EB0007814636AB36A677AD2@exchange1.dimensions.com> <00a801c2c640$38e62a50$78d96f83@pomello> <00b901c2c642$0dd550a0$a50aa8c0@adexainc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Max, If one took the "change-cygdrive-prefix" approach, could not one achieve backward- or "convention-" compatibility with the symlink "/cygdrive -> /"? Myself, I have a bunch of symlinks for all the Windows drives, including my CD drives and diskette. Randall Schulz At 12:32 2003-01-27, Max Bowsher wrote: >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/