X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:39:14 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygdrive prefix Message-ID: <20090918023914.GD12511@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4AB10F3F DOT 6070107 AT gmail DOT com> <806a89db0909170932v40e73189t9c5a3be4330bd821 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <4AB285AB DOT 8030008 AT cygwin DOT com> <4AB2D388 DOT 2040103 AT byu DOT net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4AB2D388.2040103@byu.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , 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 Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 06:25:44PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >According to Larry Hall (Cygwin) on 9/17/2009 12:53 PM: >> 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. > >Including 'ln -s / /cygdrive' after changing your mount point, so that /c >and /cygdrive/c still refer to the same place. Haven't we already looped several times in this discussion? I don't think there is any new information that needs to be imparted. Can we close this down now? cgf -- 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