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Re: cygdrive binary?


Pavel Kudrna wrote:
> 
> I changed the value under
> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2]
> "cygdrive flags"=dword:00000020
> in the registry to
> "cygdrive flags"=dword:00000002
> and now it seems to be OK.
> 
> Is it the right way to do that? If yes I would expect that setup
> should do that... 

No. The right way is 'mount -b --change-cygdrive-prefix=cygdrive'. See
'mount -h' and 'umount -h' for more info.

> It was many times written in this list that drives
> should be mounted in bin mode...
> 

Maybe. Depends on what you're doing.

--Chuck

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