Re: Tried to remove cygdrive prefix, ended up "lost" in my filesystem

2013-10-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/2/2013 7:45 PM, Diego Mesa wrote: Hello! I've tried the mount -c / command, as well as the changes in fstab with a restart and it still doesnt work! Am I missing something? You appear to be expecting that you can run the command above while you're sitting in a path under /cygdrive and th

Re: Tried to remove cygdrive prefix, ended up "lost" in my filesystem

2013-10-02 Thread Diego Mesa
Hello! I've tried the mount -c / command, as well as the changes in fstab with a restart and it still doesnt work! Am I missing something? On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Diego Mesa! > >> I have tried as suggested in [#1] and used the mount command as >> follows

Re: Tried to remove cygdrive prefix, ended up "lost" in my filesystem

2013-10-02 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Diego Mesa! > I have tried as suggested in [#1] and used the mount command as > follows but it still doesnt work. However, my ~ is indeed my ~ For all your struggles, I think there's one point that you're missing. For /etc/fstab changes to take effect, any and all applications using cy

Re: Tried to remove cygdrive prefix, ended up "lost" in my filesystem

2013-10-02 Thread Diego Mesa
Hello, I have tried as suggested in [#1] and used the mount command as follows but it still doesnt work. However, my ~ is indeed my ~ ~:pwd /cygdrive/c/Users/myname ~:cat /etc/fstab # For a description of the file format, see the Users Guide # http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/

Re: Tried to remove cygdrive prefix, ended up "lost" in my filesystem

2013-10-02 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Diego Mesa wrote: > I tried removing the first line, but still appear in some no mands > land directory: > > :cat /et/fstab > # For a description of the file format, see the Users Guide > # http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table > Seems

Re: Tried to remove cygdrive prefix, ended up "lost" in my filesystem

2013-10-02 Thread Diego Mesa
I tried removing the first line, but still appear in some no mands land directory: :cat /et/fstab # For a description of the file format, see the Users Guide # http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table # This is default anyway: #none /cygdrive cygdrive binary,posi

Re: Tried to remove cygdrive prefix, ended up "lost" in my filesystem

2013-10-01 Thread Warren Young
On 10/1/2013 17:55, Diego Mesa wrote: none /cygdrive cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0 0 none / cygdrive binary 0 0 You should pound the first line out, or remove it from the file entirely. You're trying to define two conflicting "cygdrive"s here. -- Problem reports: http://cyg

Tried to remove cygdrive prefix, ended up "lost" in my filesystem

2013-10-01 Thread Diego Mesa
Hello, Ive seen and done as suggested on this realted question [#1] about removing cygdrive prefix but am still unable to get ride of the /cygdrive/c prefix, and have encountered even stranger errors! My True directory :pwd /cygdrive/c/Users/myname :ls file1 file2 ... My