Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 23:16:33 +0100 Message-ID: <4497-Thu20Jun2002231633+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jon LaBadie Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: cygdrive prefix confusion In-Reply-To: <20020620220941.GA14451@butch.jgcomp.com> References: <20020620220941.GA14451@butch.jgcomp.com> On Thursday 20 Jun 02, Jon LaBadie writes: > I've reset my cygdrive prefix to "/" rather than "/cygdrive". > For interactive use this seems fine. > However, I'm running some backup software that accesses the > system from a remote server. That software does not see the > windows drives as /c, /d, ... (i.e., my new prefix), but still > sees them as /cygdrive/c etc. as if I did not change the prefix. The default is to set the prefix for the user only. For all users, use "mount -s". Try "mount --help" for details. Regards, David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/