Well, I only need a solution for my special case *now*, so it's okay for me if mounts are going to be stored anywhere else in the future. My problem is: I've set "Default Text File Format" to "Unix" during setup. Now I just want to change my Cygwin installation as if I had specified "DOS" instead.
You can simply re-run setup in the "Keep" mode and change the filesystem type to "DOS"...
I tried that, but I always used VIM to see if it worked ... I didn't know VIM (being a text editor) always creates files in binary mode.
mount -sbc /cygdrive
Thanks. I've changed all my mounts to "textmode".
Including the cygdrive prefix?
I also re-mounted the drives without "cygdrive" prefix, if that's what you mean.
What I don't get: If I now create a file using VIM and look at it afterwards using "od -c", it still contains \n instead of \r\n line ends. Why is that?
Because VIm always creates files in binary mode, IIRC (perhaps because it is linked with binmode.o, not automode.o?). Try ":set fileformat=dos" before saving the file. You can also put the above command in your ~/.vimrc.
Strange: "set fileformat=dos" works in the editor, but not when entered into ".vimrc" (other commands in there work).
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