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

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

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.  The cygwin installer now also creates a
>real directory on the windows file system called cygdrive, but even if
>I delete this or change the cygdrive prefix to something non-default
>(like /mnt), it will still show up (with ls, find, etc.).
>
>For a while, i suspected this had something to do with the cygdrive
>flags parameter (in the registry under ...\cygwin\mounts v2 ), but i'm
>having no success playing with that now, and the cygwin faq and mailing
>list archives are all very quiet about the subject.  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?

>Does anyone have an idea how to get the old behavior back of hiding the
>cydrive prefix directory?
>
>And, whether or not it is related, does anyone know how the cygdrive
>flags parameter is defined, what options can be set with it, etc.  ?

The cygdrive prefix is controlled with the mount program.  Anything
that it is possible to do with it is mentioned there.  It is not
possible to hide it currently.

As you have discovered, the cygdrive parameter isn't there for you
to play with via regedit.  It is really intended to be manipulated
with the mount command.

cgf

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