Changing Root (/)

Mike Williams mikew@harlequin.co.uk
Wed Aug 20 09:06:00 GMT 1997


On 19 Aug 97 at 18:37, Sonic Junior wrote:

> 	Anybody here happen to know how I would change the root (/) directory?
> It's current c:, but I want it to be e:\gnuwin32\unix
> 	If you know, please contact me! Thanks!

Hi,

I did this just yesterday - I had to edit the registry settings 
directly since you can't umount /. The downside is that if you ever 
do mount --reset you have to re-edit the registry settings.

Unless there is a better way I don't know yet ...

Mike.
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