On Apr 11 15:55, Sebastian Schuberth wrote: > >>where does Cygwin store whether the user has chosen DOS or UNIX as the > >>"Default Text File Format" when installing? Is it possible to change that > >>setting without re-installing Cygwin? > > > >In the mount table. See "man mount". Google for "cygwin remount binary" > >for a handy one-liner. > > Thanks. The default mounts seem to be encoded in the Windows registry, > as there is not fstab. It also seems I need to change the flags in a key > named "cygdrive flags" if I want to change the mount mode of > auto-mounted drives. Is that correct? Is there an explanation of the > flags somewhere (well, without having to checkout all the source code > and search for it ...).
Did you follow Igor's suggestio to read `man mount'? Use the mount command. Don't change the registry manually. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/
