X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Olumide <50295@web.de> Subject: Re: Is it okay to delete Cygwin (mirror) download directories? Date: Sun, 08 May 2011 09:32:26 +0100 Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <20110508062350.GA3150@schweikhardt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: <20110508062350.GA3150@schweikhardt.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On 5/8/2011 7:23 AM, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: > On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 01:32:12AM +0100, Olumide wrote: > ... > # Now I'm running out of HD space I'm looking to reclaim some of that > # space. Is it okay to delete some or all of these directories? I'm > # concerned that the Cygwin setup program uses one of these folders to > # determine what programs I've currently got installed. > > That's recorded in /etc/setup/installed.db which you can inspect with a > text editor. Thanks! (reaches for the delete key ...) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple