Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix

[Ken Dibble]

Brian Dessent wrote:

>Ken Dibble wrote:
>
>  
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>>Well, maybe my installation is hosed then.  I have installed for all
>>users, but mount -m returns
>>
>>mount -f -s -b "C:/cygwin/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts"
>>"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts"
>>mount -f -s -b "C:/cygwin/bin" "/usr/bin"
>>mount -f -s -b "C:/cygwin/lib" "/usr/lib"
>>mount -f -s -b "C:/cygwin" "/"
>>mount -u -b --change-cygdrive-prefix "/cygdrive"
>>mount -s -b --change-cygdrive-prefix "/"
>>    
>>
>
>It's not hosed, you just happen to have both flavors of cygdrive
>prefix.  The user mounts always take precedence over the system-wide
>ones.  If I were you I'd remove the user cygdrive (since all your other
>mounts are system) with "umount -uc" and then change your system
>cygdrive to the desired value, presumably "mount -c /cygdrive".
>
>  
>

Thank you, worked like a charm.

Ken


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