Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 23:12:27 -0400 From: Jon LaBadie To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygdrive prefix confusion Message-ID: <20020621031227.GB15452@butch.jgcomp.com> Mail-Followup-To: Jon LaBadie , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20020620220941 DOT GA14451 AT butch DOT jgcomp DOT com> <4497-Thu20Jun2002231633+0100-starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4497-Thu20Jun2002231633+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 11:16:33PM +0100, David Starks-Browning wrote: > On Thursday 20 Jun 02, Jon LaBadie writes: > > I've reset my cygdrive prefix to "/" rather than "/cygdrive". > > For interactive use this seems fine. > > > However, I'm running some backup software that accesses the > > system from a remote server. That software does not see the > > windows drives as /c, /d, ... (i.e., my new prefix), but still > > sees them as /cygdrive/c etc. as if I did not change the prefix. > > The default is to set the prefix for the user only. For all users, > use "mount -s". Try "mount --help" for details. Actually I did run mount --help. But the meaning of: -s add mount point to system-wide registry location was lost on me as relating to cygdrive prefix. I'll give it a try, thanks. -- Jon H. LaBadie jcyg AT jgcomp DOT com JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/