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On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 02:11:32PM -0400, Edward Lam wrote:
>Whenever I do a "mount -c /" in cygwin 1.7, it seems to revert back to 
>/cygdrive after rebooting on Windows XP x64. Any ideas on how to have 
>the mount point change persist through reboots?

You need to modify /etc/fstab.  That's a fundamental difference in Cygwin
1.5.  Mount points are no longer persistent unless you go out of your way
to make them so.

cgf

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