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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT syncretize DOT net>
To: "'Jon LaBadie'" <jcyg AT jgcomp DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Any gotcha's in moving cygwin?
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:00:05 +1000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of Jon LaBadie
> Sent: Tuesday, 23 July 2002 9:57 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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


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