On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 4:21 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 31 17:55, Mirko Vukovic wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to change my /home directory. >> My windows HOME variable points to d: which is my user directory on the PC. >> Currently, /home points to my home directory. But because of some >> issues with unison, I would like to change it >> to /home/977315 >> >> I tried: >> > mkdir /home/977315 >> > vi /etc/fstab ... to point d: to /home/977315 (d: is my home directory) >> > vi /etc/passwd to make my login directory /home/977315 >> >> But when I open a new bash window, `cd ~' will still put me into >> /home, and mount's output still points d: to /home. >> >> If I remove that windows variable HOME, my cygwin home directory >> becomes /home/mv. But the mount point d: is still pointing to /home, >> disregarding the /etc/fstab setting >> >> What else should I do? > > Stop all your Cygwin processes and start again. The fstab changes won't > be visible until you "restart" your Cygwin session. Alternatively, try > `mount -a', see http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mount > > > Corinna
Thank you. Works now. Mirko -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
