BTW, there is a type there, IMO: > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#cygdrive
<quote> none /cygdrive cygdrive binary 0 0 D: /cygdrive/d somefs text 0 0 will not make file access using the /mnt/d path prefix suddenly using textmode </quote> The sentence after the fstab excerpt should have referred to "/cygdrive/d", not to "/mnt/d" (alternatively, the excerpt should have used "/mnt" instead of "/cygdrive" throughout). HTH, Anton Lavrentiev Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI