"mount -a" has no effect on the cygdrive prefix

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Dec 23 08:32, Karl M wrote:
> Hi All...
>  
> With the last 1.7.0 version and with a clean 1.7.1 install on an XP Pro SP3 machine,
> if I edit my fstab to change my cygdrive prefix and then do a "mount -a", my mounts
> as shown by the mount command or catting mtab are not updated. I only tried it with
> the cygdrive prefix, not with other mounts.

The cygdrive prefix is explicitely ignored when calling mount -a.
The problem is, I'm not sure anymore *why* I did it that way.
I added it to my TODO list, at least to figure out the reason...


Thanks,
Corinna

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