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Re: Re: Changing from textmode to binmode mounting
- From: Patrick Eisenacher <eisenacher at fillmore-labs dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 13:30:12 +0200
- Subject: Re: Re: Changing from textmode to binmode mounting
- Organization: Fillmore Labs GmbH
Hi Peter,
here is how I did it:
Go to to cygwin\bin directory and run the following command from a
Windows shell:
mount -bs --change-cygdrive-prefix /cygdrive
HTH,
Patrick
> David Starks-Browning <starksb@ebi.ac.uk> writes:
>
> > On 1 Jul 02, Peter Davis writes:
> > >
> > > For some reason, my Win2000 machine has everything mounted in
> > > textmode, although my WinNT machine correctly mounts in binmode. In
> > > textmode, my fetchmail spool file is unreadable by MH and other mail
> > > utilities?
> > >
> > > Can someone tell me how to switch from textmode to binmode? I tried
> > > the command
> > >
> > > mount -b --change-cygdrive-prefix cygdrive
> > >
> > > as suggested in the faq, but it seemed to have no effect.
> >
> > You say "everything" is mounted in textmode, but that command will
> > only change the cygdrive mounts. Also user mounts will override
> > system mounts (or vice versa?). This can be confusing if you change
> > the system mount but the user mount hides the change (or vice versa?).
>
> Here's what I have:
>
> $ mount
> C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type user (textmode)
> C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type user (textmode)
> C:\cygwin on / type user (textmode)
> c: on /cygdrive/c type user (textmode,noumount)
> d: on /cygdrive/d type user (textmode,noumount)
> m: on /cygdrive/m type user (textmode,noumount)
> q: on /cygdrive/q type user (textmode,noumount)
> r: on /cygdrive/r type user (textmode,noumount)
>
> I've tried
>
> mount -b --change-cygdrive-prefix cygdrive
> mount: cygdrive: Invalid argument
>
> I also tried
>
> mount -b --change-cygdrive-prefix /cygdrive
> mount -b --change-cygdrive-prefix /cygwin
>
>
> No messages, but nothing changes. Am I missing something?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> -pd
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