X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 10:21:26 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: changing home directory Message-ID: <20110401082125.GB25000@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <AANLkTik1TuKTAKiCxoUeT4UCPq4X_iNzQkptAgkEnVy9 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik1TuKTAKiCxoUeT4UCPq4X_iNzQkptAgkEnVy9@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com> List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com> List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/> List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs> Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Mar 31 17:55, Mirko Vukovic wrote: > Hi, > > I want to change my /home directory. > My windows HOME variable points to d: which is my user directory on the PC. > Currently, /home points to my home directory. But because of some > issues with unison, I would like to change it > to /home/977315 > > I tried: > > mkdir /home/977315 > > vi /etc/fstab ... to point d: to /home/977315 (d: is my home directory) > > vi /etc/passwd to make my login directory /home/977315 > > But when I open a new bash window, `cd ~' will still put me into > /home, and mount's output still points d: to /home. > > If I remove that windows variable HOME, my cygwin home directory > becomes /home/mv. But the mount point d: is still pointing to /home, > disregarding the /etc/fstab setting > > What else should I do? Stop all your Cygwin processes and start again. The fstab changes won't be visible until you "restart" your Cygwin session. Alternatively, try `mount -a', see http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mount Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple