Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/03/08/19:02:38
Igor Peshansky wrote:
> 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.
>
Tried 'mount', worked fine.
- I haven't needed -f (force) option.
- The copy was done via Win for easiness, just 2 clicks (cut & paste)
>> _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
>
Simple and effective.
Thank you all!
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