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,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: cygdrive prefix Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:35:08 -0700 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <4AB10F3F.6070107@gmail.com> <806a89db0909170932v40e73189t9c5a3be4330bd821@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) In-Reply-To: <806a89db0909170932v40e73189t9c5a3be4330bd821@mail.gmail.com> X-Stationery: 0.4.10 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 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. $ mount -bsf F: /cvs then s/cygdrive\/f/cvs/ in your CVS/Root files... Done! Or: $ ln -s /win /cygdrive Done! IOW there are other ways. -- Andrew DeFaria C:\> Bad command or file name! Go stand in the corner. -- 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