X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4AB2D388.2040103@byu.net> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:25:44 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygdrive prefix References: <4AB10F3F.6070107@gmail.com> <806a89db0909170932v40e73189t9c5a3be4330bd821@mail.gmail.com> <4AB285AB.8030008@cygwin.com> In-Reply-To: <4AB285AB.8030008@cygwin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Larry Hall (Cygwin) on 9/17/2009 12:53 PM: > 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. Including 'ln -s / /cygdrive' after changing your mount point, so that /c and /cygdrive/c still refer to the same place. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkqy04gACgkQ84KuGfSFAYDpNACdH4CYCBIZsflXxnVyRSwC5/Vd rpkAnigeB7KvGk8JK2Tt7ai0iOHQvtMt =o/Bk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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