Re: The death of the //x use in cygwin

[Don Sharp <dwsharp at iee dot org>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> I wanted to give a heads up to everyone that the //c method
> for accessing drives will finally be removed in Cygwin 1.3.3.
> We've been threatening to do this for more than a year and
> the time has finally come.
> 
...snip..
> 
> If this is too cumbersome, you can change /cygdrive to whatever
> you want.  Many people seem to like to have the drives accessible
> as a directory so that c: == /c .  The easiest way to default to
> this behavior is to do this:
> 
> mount -s --change-cygdrive-prefix /
> 
> Or conversely, if you think that /cygdrive is too short and too
> hard to remember, you could also do something like:
> 
> mount -s --change-cygdrive-prefix /bobs-disk-devices
> 
> Then, you can access drives as:
> 
> ls /bobs-disk-devices/c/foo
> 
> Note that the default "mount mode" for these devices remains as "text
> mounts".  If you want to change the mount mode to be "binmode', you
> can do this:
> 
> mount -b -s --change-cygdrive-prefix /
> 

however even if you do

mount -f -b -s --change-cygdrive-prefix /cygdrive

to try and change from user level to global level

mount still reports ( after logging out and back in again and inetd not
running prior to logout )

d: on /cygdrive/d type user (binmode,noumount)
k: on /cygdrive/k type user (binmode,noumount)
l: on /cygdrive/l type user (binmode,noumount)
t: on /cygdrive/t type user (binmode,noumount)

Keep up the good work.

TVM

Don Sharp

> For a more advanced description on what these options do, check out
> the cygwin documentation at http://www.cygwin.com/ .
> 
> cgf
> 
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