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On 09/17/2009 12:32 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Andrew Schulman
> <schulman DOT andrew AT epamail DOT epa DOT gov>  wrote:
>
>> Personally I like /win/c etc., but sure, I guess you could put
>>
>> none / cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0 0
>>
>> into /etc/fstab and get /c, /d, etc.
>
>
> There is a huge downside to this. I tried it.  It totally broke all my
> projects using CVS, because /cygdrive no longer existed, and all my
> CVS projects used /cygdrive/f/CVSROOT as the Root
>
> So try/use at your own risk!  I think symbolic links are the way to go.

While I'm not suggesting that people should reassign their "cygdrive" prefix
to "/", I think the problem you saw in your case is a result of having set
CVS up when your setting was still "cygdrive" and the disconnect you get
now that it isn't.  So I believe you'd see the same problem no matter what
you changed "cygdrive" to.  Obviously, as you point out, symbolic links are
a good alternative in this case.

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