Remounting /cygdrive/c as /c

Rob rob2@siklos.ca
Mon Jul 21 14:54:00 GMT 2003


Try restarting your computer

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Hall" <cygwin-lh@cygwin.com>
To: "Richard Anderson" <richard@richard-anderson.org>
Cc: "Cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 10:26 AM
Subject: Re: Remounting /cygdrive/c as /c


> Richard Anderson wrote:
>
> > Hi.  I searched the archives, but did not find anything on this.
According
> > to the man page for mount and Christopher Faylor original announcement
> > (http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-09/msg00014.html ), the
command:
> >
> > mount -s --change-cygdrive-prefix /
> >
> > should remount the /cygdrive/c filesystem as /c.  When I do this and
type ls
> > /c, I see:
> >
> > ls /c
> > ls: /c: No such file or directory
> >
> > and the df command shows the mount points have not changed.  I am doing
this
> > from an account with Administrator priviledges on Win XP, cygwin release
> > version is 1.3.22-1.
> >
> > What am I missing?
>
>
> What does the output of 'mount -m' say about '--change-cygdrive-prefix'?
> BTW, the steps above work fine for me.
>
>
>
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