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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 10:51:38 -0400
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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To: Rob <rob2 AT siklos DOT ca>
CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, Richard Anderson <richard AT richard-anderson DOT org>
Subject: Re: Remounting /cygdrive/c as /c
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Just curious, why do you think this will be helpful?
I'd be interested in understanding your reasoning on this.
I can't see an obvious reason why this would be necessary
but I'm always interested in hearing other people's
experiences and solutions.

Thanks,
Larry

Rob wrote:

> Try restarting your computer
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Larry Hall" <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
> To: "Richard Anderson" <richard AT richard-anderson DOT org>
> Cc: "Cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 10:26 AM
> Subject: Re: Remounting /cygdrive/c as /c
> 
> 
> 
>>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.
>>
>>
>>
>>-- 
>>Larry Hall                              http://www.rfk.com
>>RFK Partners, Inc.                      (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
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