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Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:32:55 -0600
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Subject: Re: cygdrive prefix
From: Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>
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On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Andrew Schulman
<schulman.andrew@epamail.epa.gov> wrote:

> Personally I like /win/c etc., but sure, I guess you could put
>
> none / cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0 0
>
> into /etc/fstab and get /c, /d, etc.


There is a huge downside to this. I tried it.  It totally broke all my
projects using CVS, because /cygdrive no longer existed, and all my
CVS projects used /cygdrive/f/CVSROOT as the Root

So try/use at your own risk!  I think symbolic links are the way to go.

- Jim

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Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us

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