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Date:  Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:35:08 -0700
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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.
$ mount -bsf F: /cvs

then s/cygdrive\/f/cvs/ in your CVS/Root files...

Done!

Or:

$ ln -s /win /cygdrive

Done!

IOW there are other ways.
-- 
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
C:\> Bad command or file name! Go stand in the corner.


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