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Subject:	Re: migrate a cygwin installation
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On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Hans Horn wrote:
> What is the current recommended way to migrate a cygwin installation?
> my c: drive has gotten full to the brim.
> Tried to follow some older instructions online (~2009) but they do not seem
> to work anymore.

Just copy the root directory to a new drive and modify the /etc/fstab
to carefully replace c: with whatever the new drive letter is.  Note
you may have added mounts where c: should not change.

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