Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/09/12/07:03:23
I have found that giving cygwin its own partition and setting / to the
root of the volume gives the best of all worlds for me.
I have also used systems with a LETTER:/cygwin and experienced no
unexpected or inconvenient behaviour.
Cheers
Don Sharp
Max Bowsher wrote:
> linda w wrote:
>
>> Since some fair number of people (including myself) do use the cygwin
>> fs root set at C:\, and having done so over win98,me,2000 and xp I've,
>> personally, never ran into any problems, I was wondering if anyone else
>> *had* run into problems having Cygroot=C:\ ?
>
>
> AFAIK the reasons for this are:
>
> Intermingling cygwin files and directories with Program Files, WINDOWS,
> and all the other bits windows sticks in C:\ is just... *messy*.
>
> It's good to be able to tell people "to uninstall cygwin, just delete
> C:\cygwin"
>
> You never know if some other program is going to decide C:\usr would be
> a good place to install to. I'm fairly sure I came across a Perl
> installer that did this at some stage.
>
>> I did run into a problem on a friend's system when I decided to take the
>> more conservative approach and install cygwin in the non-root of his
>> system -- since it wasn't my sys and didn't want to go against the
>> "suggestion"
>> of the cygwin installer...but in using his system after that, not having
>> the two roots be synonomous has been nothing but a pain. find commands,
>> locate
>> and such that used to work from root now no longer work as expected. I
>> can't
>> access the whole system the way I was used to...it's more like cygwin is
>> installed into a separate little compartment over to the side, whereas
>> when
>> I install it in root, I am more often using it as a OS adjunct/layer, as,
>> I _think_, many people are.
>
>
> I'm using Cygwin as a most important part of my environment, and I don't
> find it odd to have it in C:\cygwin. In fact, I'd *hate* it to have
> "Program Files", WINDOWS, and so on cluttering up my '/' directory.
>
> If you dislike typing /cygdrive/c, then set up a symlink at /c.
>
>> So I was wondering -- is that warning really _necessary_? and if it is,
>> maybe
>> it is only necessary when creating a new install and not running an
>> update
>> on an existing install each time?
>
>
> That's probably a good idea.
>
> Max.
>
>
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