Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/03/08/14:44:39
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On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, René Berber wrote:
> Mool wrote:
>
> > 1) Cygwin Installed on C:\Cygwin (C: partition win winXP SP2)
> > 2) First run created /home/$USER in C:\Cygwin
> >
> > how to MOVE my home dir in another partition D:, so I'll use
> > D:\cygwin\home\$USER?
>
> cp -rp /cygdrive/c/Cygwin/home/$USER /cygdrive/d/Cygwin/home
Unless cp has changed in multiple ways, a better idiom would be
tar -C /home -cf - $USER | tar -C /cygdrive/d/Cygwin/home -xf -
which will preserve symbolic links, etc. In both cases, any extra ACLs on
the files will be lost. Also, depending on the text vs. binary mode
settings of /cygdrive and /, there might be issues with that as well.
It may be better to *move* (not copy) the directory using Windows,
instead.
> Edit /etc/passwd changing $USER's line with the new home (i.e. from
> /home/$USER to /cygdrive/d/Cygwin/home/$USER)
No reason. Just "mount -fs D:/cygwin/home/$USER /home/$USER", and you
won't have to change anything.
> _test it_, if it works then you can delete the old home directory.
>
> All this is assuming you haven't changed the cygdrive prefix. And if
> you do change it in the future the new $HOME will not work, you'll have
> to edit passwd again.
HTH,
Igor
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