I'm teaching a class at a local college, and since their computer lab is stocked with Windows 7 & 8 machines, I had them install cygwin64 to use as a command line.
The only change I requested they make to the config is to replace the "/cygdrive" in /etc/fstab with "/". This is my config at home, and googling seems to indicate it is an accepted way of changing the default prefix. The problem is, it has no effect - the prefix (in a new session) is still /cygdrive, as shown by mount and ls. Any tips on why this may not be working? I've verified the change to /etc/fstab - it's the default, with only the first occurrence of "/cygdrive" changed to "/". It happened in two different computer labs, administered by to different sysadmins, on I believe two different operating systems (win7 & 8). I don't have a cygcheck output on me, but this is a clean install, downloaded as of this week, with no extra packages except python. Using "mount -c" works, but is not persistent between sessions. The below works for me at home: # This is default anyway: # none /cygdrive cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0 0 none / cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0 0 mitch -- 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