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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 16:50:50 +0200
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>
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To: Jon LaBadie <jcyg AT jgcomp DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Need help in umounting  the auto mounted  mount points
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Jon schrieb:

>> You can change the /cygdrive prefix to s.th. else (like '/').

> Really, did not realize this.  I've always made symlinks
> for all the drives to /cygdrive/X.

mount --help

> I'd prefer an ls -l of /c to show the drive, not the link :)
> Do cygwin users commonly change the /cygdrive prefix to '/'?

I do, but I really don't know if it is common.

> Are there any issues, positive or negative, in doing so?

Well, before this feature was enabled I mounted the drives myself.
I got /hdd/c /hdd/d /hdd/e ...
Now I have all at the root /c /d /e ...

The issue is they don't show up if you do `ls` in a script or the
command line.


Gerrit
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