Re: changing cygdrive prefix in fstab has no effect

2014-09-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 09/09/2014 08:03 PM, Mitch Deoudes wrote: Thanks for the suggestions. @Linda: >> Have you tried 'mount -h'? Yes - I believe I mentioned it above. Changing the prefix via mount does not seem to survive between sessions, on this install. @Andrey >> Simplest would be to just reboot the box

Re: changing cygdrive prefix in fstab has no effect

2014-09-09 Thread Mitch Deoudes
Thanks for the suggestions. @Linda: >> Have you tried 'mount -h'? Yes - I believe I mentioned it above. Changing the prefix via mount does not seem to survive between sessions, on this install. @Andrey >> Simplest would be to just reboot the box to be absolutely sure. I believe these boxes

Re: changing cygdrive prefix in fstab has no effect

2014-09-03 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Mitch Deoudes! > I'm teaching a class at a local college, and since their computer lab is > stocked with Windows 7 & 8 machines, I had them install cygwin64 to use > as a command line. > The only change I requested they make to the config is to replace the > "/cygdrive" in /etc/fstab w

Re: changing cygdrive prefix in fstab has no effect

2014-09-03 Thread Linda Walsh
Have you tried 'mount -h'? It shows an option to change the cygdrive. I've always used that. In regards to the cygdrive prefix I thought the results of changing the prefix with the 'mount' command were recorded in /etc/fstab -- and that it wasn't the source of the direction...? -- Problem re

changing cygdrive prefix in fstab has no effect

2014-09-02 Thread Mitch Deoudes
I'm teaching a class at a local college, and since their computer lab is stocked with Windows 7 & 8 machines, I had them install cygwin64 to use as a command line. The only change I requested they make to the config is to replace the "/cygdrive" in /etc/fstab with "/". This is my config at home,