Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Robert Collins" To: "'Jon LaBadie'" , Subject: RE: Any gotcha's in moving cygwin? Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:00:05 +1000 Message-ID: <001301c231db$e6d7dae0$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal In-Reply-To: <20020722235720.GA4728@butch.jgcomp.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com > [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Jon LaBadie > Sent: Tuesday, 23 July 2002 9:57 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Any gotcha's in moving cygwin? > > > I'm thinking of rearranging my disk space and letting > cygwin have the entire E drive. Right now it is in > c:\cygwin but I would use the e:\ root dir as cygwin's root. > > Any gotcha's in such an arrangement? > Or in moving things around? Yup, windows-style symlinks that have drive references in them will fail, and your mount table needs rebuilding. Oh, and update your path. That's about it though. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/