Hello, On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:
> ChrisW wrote: > > > Nothing I can change the cygdrive prefix. I recall > > being able to do it before. > > You're getting confused because you can set the cygdrive prefix both > system-wide and per-user, and the latter takes precedent. > > > c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount) > > y: on /cygdrive/y type user (binmode,noumount) > > ^^^ note "user" > > > /> mount -s -b --change-cygdrive-prefix / > > ^^^ note "-s" meaning change the system-wide mount > > So, you're changing the system-wide cygdrive prefix but since you have a > user-defined cygdrive prefix it is taking precedent. I believe this was > a recent change which is why you are seeing it now. Yes! There was a change in October 2004 which allowed the system prefix to be used no matter that a user prefix was specified. This is not the expected behaviour and it was changed in Cygwin 1.5.14 to work as it used to be in the past. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
