On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, 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.
By "default mounts", do you mean the /cygdrive auto-mounts? > 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? No, that is *NOT* correct. The mounts are stored in the registry *now*, but they aren't guaranteed to stay in the registry in the future. What is guaranteed, however, is that the "mount" command will *always* manipulate the mount table, wherever it's stored. Cygwin's "mount" is very different from the Linux "mount" -- you really should read the "mount" manpage. > Is there an explanation of the flags somewhere (well, without having to > checkout all the source code and search for it ...). The flags on the auto-mounted drives can be changed by setting them in conjunction with the --change-cygdrive-prefix (-c) mount flag. So, to make them binary, just say mount -sbc /cygdrive (if you installed "for all users"), or mount -ubc /cygdrive (if you installed "just for me"). For the record, this list cannot support installations where the mounts were changed by directly editing the registry. Also, it would be a good idea to read and follow <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>, especially the part about attaching (as an uncompressed text *attachment*) the output of "cygcheck -svr" on your machine. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- 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/
