mount -s -b --change-cygdrive-prefix cygdrive
mount -u -b --change-cygdrive-prefix cygdrive
man mount is your friend (although it doesn't explicitly describe how to
use the --change-cygdrive-prefix option to change the mode from text to
binary without actually changing the prefix...
--Chuck
Andre Bleau wrote:
> I'm having trouble mounting some of my drives in binmode. As an ordinary
> user, I tried:
>
> mount -b -f E: /cygdrive/e
>
> To mount the E: drive in binmode. Mount reports:
>
> $ mount
> C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (textmode)
> C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (textmode)
> C:\cygwin on / type system (textmode)
> E: on /cygdrive/e type user (binmode)
> c: on /cygdrive/c type user (textmode,noumount)
> d: on /cygdrive/d type user (textmode,noumount)
> z: on /cygdrive/z type user (textmode,noumount)
>
> Writing to files under /cydrive/e still converts \n to \r\n. I used the
> following test program (testNL.c):
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> main ()
> {
> FILE *fd;
> fd = fopen("HelloWorld", "w");
> fprintf(fd, "Hello world\n");
> }
>
> Compiled with:
>
> gcc -g testNL.c -o testNL
>
> Test results:
>
> cd /cygdrive/e/Partage/Images
> testNL
> od -c HelloWorld
> 0000000 H e l l o w o r l d \r \n
> 0000015
>
> However, creating another binary mount point, things work as they should:
>
> mkdir /Partage
> mount -b E:/Partage /Partage
> $ mount
> C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (textmode)
> C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (textmode)
> E:\Partage on /Partage type user (binmode)
> C:\cygwin on / type system (textmode)
> E: on /cygdrive/e type user (binmode)
> c: on /cygdrive/c type user (textmode,noumount)
> d: on /cygdrive/d type user (textmode,noumount)
> z: on /cygdrive/z type user (textmode,noumount)
>
> cd /Partage/Images
> testNL
> od -c HelloWorld
> 0000000 H e l l o w o r l d \n
> 0000014
>
> It seems that users cannot remount their drives in binmode but only
> subdirectories.
>
> cygwin version is 1.3.10-1
>
>
> André Bleau, ing., associé de recherche
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Laboratoire de recherche en imagerie et orthopédie (LIO)
> École de technologie supérieure (ETS)
>
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