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Re: cygdrive prefix confusion
- From: Michael A Chase <mchase at ix dot netcom dot com>
- To: Jon LaBadie <jcyg at jgcomp dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 15:19:53 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
- Subject: Re: cygdrive prefix confusion
- References: <20020620220941.GA14451@butch.jgcomp.com>
- Reply-to: Michael A Chase <mchase at ix dot netcom dot com>
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 18:09:41 -0400 Jon LaBadie <jcyg@jgcomp.com> wrote:
> I've reset my cygdrive prefix to "/" rather than "/cygdrive".
> For interactive use this seems fine.
>
> However, I'm running some backup software that accesses the
> system from a remote server. That software does not see the
> windows drives as /c, /d, ... (i.e., my new prefix), but still
> sees them as /cygdrive/c etc. as if I did not change the prefix.
>
> Any idea why the difference?
The output from 'cygcheck -s' would probably give you a hint.
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