X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,J_CHICKENPOX_21,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4AB285AB.8030008@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:53:31 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygdrive prefix References: <4AB10F3F.6070107@gmail.com> <806a89db0909170932v40e73189t9c5a3be4330bd821@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <806a89db0909170932v40e73189t9c5a3be4330bd821@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 09/17/2009 12:32 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Andrew Schulman > 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. While I'm not suggesting that people should reassign their "cygdrive" prefix to "/", I think the problem you saw in your case is a result of having set CVS up when your setting was still "cygdrive" and the disconnect you get now that it isn't. So I believe you'd see the same problem no matter what you changed "cygdrive" to. Obviously, as you point out, symbolic links are a good alternative in this case. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple