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On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 05:10:50AM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote:
>Greetings, Michael Ludwig!
>
>> My Cygwin resides under C:\cygwin (plus G:\cygvar for packages), but as
>> both C: and G: are nearly full, I'd like to move the Cygwin folders to
>> partition T: which has plenty of space left.
>
>> Is this safe or are there things such as registry entries that will
>> prevent Cygwin from working properly, or even deconfigure or corrupt
>> my installation?
>
>There is, but nothing that can really damage your installation.
>However, to be on a safe side, you better reinstall it fresh in the new place,
>copying over your personal settings.
>Look into
>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygwin
>to deal with recorded installations.

No, this directory hasn't been used since Cygwin 1.7.x.

cgf

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