Greetings, Mitch Deoudes! > 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. Make sure NO cygwin-related sessions active. Simplest would be to just reboot the box to be absolutely sure. > 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. You'll be surprized, but... I've just migrated to a Win7/64 and when setting up a new Cygwin root, I made a stupid mistake. none / binary,posix=0,user 0 0 Took a little while to notice complaints on STDERR. > 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 -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 03.09.2014, <21:07> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
