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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 10:26:24 -0400
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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To: Richard Anderson <richard AT richard-anderson DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Remounting /cygdrive/c as /c
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Richard Anderson wrote:

> Hi.  I searched the archives, but did not find anything on this.  According
> to the man page for mount and Christopher Faylor original announcement
> (http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-09/msg00014.html ), the command:
> 
> mount -s --change-cygdrive-prefix /
> 
> should remount the /cygdrive/c filesystem as /c.  When I do this and type ls
> /c, I see:
> 
> ls /c
> ls: /c: No such file or directory
> 
> and the df command shows the mount points have not changed.  I am doing this
> from an account with Administrator priviledges on Win XP, cygwin release
> version is 1.3.22-1.
> 
> What am I missing?


What does the output of 'mount -m' say about '--change-cygdrive-prefix'?
BTW, the steps above work fine for me.



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