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Re: Tried to remove cygdrive prefix, ended up "lost" in my filesystem
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 17:25:14 -0400
- Subject: Re: Tried to remove cygdrive prefix, ended up "lost" in my filesystem
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On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Diego Mesa wrote:
> I tried removing the first line, but still appear in some no mands
> land directory:
>
> :cat /et/fstab
> # For a description of the file format, see the Users Guide
> # http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table
>
Seems the FAQ is missing the easiest method to change the /cygdrive
prefix. To make /cygdrive simply be / all you need is the following
command. Remove the lines you've inserted in /etc/fstab and then
execute the command.
$ mount -c /
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