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: <42FB3FDC.9020403@alltel.net> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 07:09:00 -0500 From: Ken Dibble User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix References: <42FA4604.8000507@tlinx.org> <20050810183616.GA5892@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20050810184119.GA6155@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <42FA7608.4070501@serv.net> <42FA7C4C.4010607@serv.net> <20050811012423.GD10161@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <42FAB187.8020503@alltel.net> <20050811020633.GF10161@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <42FAB49E.2010401@alltel.net> <42FAB7FF.A04524AA@dessent.net> <42FB30A8.6020509@alltel.net> <42FB35E7.1D988F0B@dessent.net> <42FB37AE.7060001@alltel.net> <42FB3CB4.CD113AAC@dessent.net> In-Reply-To: <42FB3CB4.CD113AAC@dessent.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Brian Dessent wrote: >Ken Dibble wrote: > > > >>Well, maybe my installation is hosed then. I have installed for all >>users, but mount -m returns >> >>mount -f -s -b "C:/cygwin/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts" >>"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts" >>mount -f -s -b "C:/cygwin/bin" "/usr/bin" >>mount -f -s -b "C:/cygwin/lib" "/usr/lib" >>mount -f -s -b "C:/cygwin" "/" >>mount -u -b --change-cygdrive-prefix "/cygdrive" >>mount -s -b --change-cygdrive-prefix "/" >> >> > >It's not hosed, you just happen to have both flavors of cygdrive >prefix. The user mounts always take precedence over the system-wide >ones. If I were you I'd remove the user cygdrive (since all your other >mounts are system) with "umount -uc" and then change your system >cygdrive to the desired value, presumably "mount -c /cygdrive". > > > Thank you, worked like a charm. Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/