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RE: change /usr ?


> Guilaume,
> 
> You should think *very* carefully before doing this, but if you are 
> *really* sure you want to, you can use the mount command to 
> remount /usr 
> from c:\cygwin\usr to c:\usr
> $ mount c:\usr /usr
> or 
> $ mount -b c:\usr /usr
> will do this for you.

Just a note:
"c:\usr" will probably give you an "Invalid argument" error.
Use
mount c:/usr /usr
to be sure.

And since the mount point /usr already exists you might umount
it first: umount /usr

Oh, and good luck...

bye,
 harry

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