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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:02:31 -0500
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
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CC: Guillaume Devoyon <guillaume DOT devoyon AT integro-networks DOT com>,
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Subject: Re: change /usr ?
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Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
> Guilaume,
> 
> You should think *very* carefully before doing this, but if you are 
> *really* sure you want to, you can use the mount command to remount /usr 
> from c:\cygwin\usr to c:\usr
> $ mount c:\usr /usr
> or 
> $ mount -b c:\usr /usr
> will do this for you.
> 
> I should re-iterate, though, that this is probably a *bad* idea.

Actually, unless the user knows what they are doing, a more foolproof
way of making this change is to delete the old installation and make
a new one in setup targeting "C:\" instead of "C:\Cygwin".


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