Andrey Repin sent the following at Wednesday, November 25, 2015 11:39 AM >On 11/25/2015 10:56 AM, cyg Simple wrote: >> I find /cygdrive/ just unbearable and I always change it to / after an >> install. The issue with this is that post install activities will >> create symlinks using /cygdrive moniker so I must go change those if I >> find them. > >Just which activities? I haven't seen any. And I do remap /cygdrive to / >at all times.
I grepped everything in and under /etc for cygdrive. The only hits were /etc/fstab and /etc/postinstall/000-cygwin-post-install.sh.done, and the latter was just setting up the former. So I have to ask, what's creating these shortcuts? The idea that setup or the post-install scripts create symlinks that point to things that are not under / and need to be accessed as, for example, /cygdrive/d (= D:\) seems very strange. >> Would it be possible for setup to ask for the value and >> setup the /etc/fstab with the value? Do others find this bit of annoying? > >You can precreate fstab, I think. Maybe you could do a 3-step install? - minimal install. - fix fstab. - install optional packages. Another (partially tested) idea: Create a folder in / named /cygdrive. Then create a symlink in it for each drive, where the symlink points to the drive and is named as the drive letter. That seems to work for some purposes, e.g., cd /cygdrive/d/dir/ goes to /d, though the CWD will be /cygdrive/d/dir, not /d/DIR. YMMV. But pre-creating c:\cygwin\etc\fstab seems like the best option. Good Luck. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- 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
