X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:00:16 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: "mount -a" has no effect on the cygdrive prefix Message-ID: <20100111180016.GN14511@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20091224111047.GB30006@calimero.vinschen.de> <20091230114617.GA32322@calimero.vinschen.de> <20100111121529.GJ14511@calimero.vinschen.de> <4B4B55A8.6080206@sbcglobal.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 On Jan 11 09:46, Karl M wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:45:28 +0000 > > From: gchicares > > Subject: Re: "mount -a" has no effect on the cygdrive prefix > > > > On 2010-01-11 16:16Z, Karl M wrote: > >> > >> I just reviewed chapter 3 of the user guide and found no mention of posix=0 > >> as the default for /cygdrive. > > > > http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html > > | To ease the pain, the /cygdrive path is case-insensitive by default > > | and you have to use the "posix=1" setting explicitly in /etc/fstab > > | or /etc/fstab.d/$USER to switch it to case-sensitivity > > > Thanks...I missed that. Nevertheless, it can't hurt to have it in the mount table option docs as well. I added it to the docs in CVS. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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