Mailing-List: contact cygwin-announce-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-announce-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-announce AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: moderator for cygwin-announce AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 18:00:28 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin-announce AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Important upcoming change in Cygwin 1.3.3 Message-ID: <20010901180028.A7967@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin-announce AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i I've mentioned this on the cygwin mailing list but I thought it was important enough that a special announcement was warranted. I'm planning on releasing a new version of the Cygwin DLL next week. It will no longer support the //x method of referencing the x: drive. Instead you will have to use /cygdrive/x. Briefly, the problem with using //x to refer to drive x is that it clashes with Windows' use of // to denote a network share. So a system called 'x' on your network was previously inaccessible to cygwin. If you don't like the /cygdrive/x method, you can change /cygdrive to anything that you want, including '/'. The method for doing this is: mount -s --change-cygdrive-prefix /foo So, "ls /foo/c" will display the contents of your C: drive. If you do this instead: mount -s --change-cygdrive-prefix / then "ls /c" will display the contents of your C: drive. Another alternative is to mount your drives individually: mount -s -b c:/ /my-c-drive mount -s -b c:/ /my-other-d-drive As you can see, the key here is to understand the mount command. For more information, check out the documentation at http://cygwin.com/ . As I said, the issue of removing //x has been mentioned recently and the usage has been deprecated for some time. I'm sorry if this change affects you however please don't send me personal email to complain about it. If you feel the need to comment about this, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com is the place to do so. You might want to read some of the past discussion in the mailing list archives first, however. FYI, cgf