Re: cygdrive flags / hiding cygdrive prefix directory (the old behavior)

"Stepp, Charles" wrote: > Symlink? > > ln -s /cygdrive/c /c Oh please no. If you want that just set the cygdrive prefix to / ("mount -c /"). Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: cygdrive flags / hiding cygdrive prefix directory (the old behavior)

On 6/15/06, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: Does the following do what you want? mount -u -b --change-cygdrive-prefix "/" Stepp, Charles wrote: > Symlink? > > ln -s /cygdrive/c /c No... Thanks but no. Barry and Charles, i think you're answering a different question. This

RE: cygdrive flags / hiding cygdrive prefix directory (the old behavior)

gwin.com > Subject: Re: cygdrive flags / hiding cygdrive prefix directory (the > old > behavior) > > Thanks for the reply. > >>> The only mention >>> of cygdrive flags in the registry that i could find was at least 3 >>> years old and got a reply to the

RE: cygdrive flags / hiding cygdrive prefix directory (the old behavior)

Symlink? ln -s /cygdrive/c /c Charles Stepp Unix SA CYGWIN ROCKS!! -Original Message- From: kralius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 11:26 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygdrive flags / hiding cygdrive prefix directory (the old behavior) Thanks for the

Re: cygdrive flags / hiding cygdrive prefix directory (the old behavior)

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, kralius wrote: > On 6/13/06, Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . Thanks. > > > changed to become visible. The cygwin installer now also creates a > > > real directory on the windows file system called cygdrive, > > > > I do

Re: cygdrive flags / hiding cygdrive prefix directory (the old behavior)

On 6/13/06, Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > changed to become visible. The cygwin installer now also creates a > real directory on the windows file system called cygdrive, I don't know where you got this idea but it's absolutely not true. There should never be a physical directory b

Re: cygdrive flags / hiding cygdrive prefix directory (the old behavior)

kralius wrote: > changed to become visible. The cygwin installer now also creates a > real directory on the windows file system called cygdrive, I don't know where you got this idea but it's absolutely not true. There should never be a physical directory backing the cygdrive prefix, and no pack

Re: cygdrive flags / hiding cygdrive prefix directory (the old behavior)

Thanks for the reply. >The only mention >of cygdrive flags in the registry that i could find was at least 3 >years old and got a reply to the effect of "don't mess with the >registry!" (*sigh*) Which apparently didn't serve as a clue? The hint was written before the always-visible cygdrive .

Re: cygdrive flags / hiding cygdrive prefix directory (the old behavior)

On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 08:22:20PM -0500, kralius wrote: >I'm trying to find a way to make the cygdrive prefix directory >(default: /cygdrive) appear hidden within cygwin (for example, to ls or >find). > >This was actually the old behavior in cygwin, but at some point it >changed to become visible.