I'm switching to Cygwin from the bash shell that ships with Git for Windows, and encountering a strange problem.  Someone thought it would be a good idea to add /cygdrive/ to all paths, while I think it's a horribly ugly idea.  I've been able to determine that I can partially fix this by addingmount --change-cygdrive-prefix /export HOME=/c/Users/BZISAD0in my .bashrc, but if I take a look at the PATH variable, everything still has /cygdrive/ in it.  I suppose I could write a script to fix the PATH but that's even more kludgey than what I'm already doing.  There's got to be a better way, and I'm pretty confident there is since Git's bash shell uses (AFAIK) an older version of Cygwin, and it's somehow configured to not prepend /cygdrive everywhere.  So, how can I turn the Suck knob to zero?
How do I get rid of Cygwin's /cygdrive prefix in all paths?
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Grepping around in /etc turned up a link that Googling did not.  It turns out you can control this in the file /etc/fstab.  Just add a line that says none / cygdrive binary 0 0and the problem should be fixed.  No more kludgey fixes in .bashrc, and no messed-up $PATH.  