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Subject: Root (/) size problem\limitation?
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 18:54:44 -0500
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From: "Mark Ewert" <mewert AT ihcis DOT com>
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Greetings,

I've been searching for an answer to this problem for hours (literally) and have not been able to find one in any of the Cygwin FAQs, documentation, mailing-lists, newsgroups or Google. So apologies in advance if the answer to this is obvious.

I have installed Cygwin (latest version) on Windows 2003 in the default directory (c:\cygwin). The installation is on a mirrored 8GB dynamic NTFS volume with over 4GB's of free space after the Cygwin install. The problem is that when Cygwin installed, it somehow automagically created a disk partition (sda) of only 1GB in size which by default contains all of the installation. After the install I have less than 100MB's free and have not been able to figure out any way to increase the size of the root partition either as part of the installation or afterwards. Normally in Unix I could use fdisk or cfdisk to create new partitions (and move root) or expand root - but those tools are not available in Cygwin. If at all possible I'd like to either enable Cygwin to have a partition up to 3GB's in size. I could always create new cygwin folders either on the C:\ drive or other drives in the system and then move\re-mount /usr or other directories but I'd rather keep the install as close to standard as possible.

Has anyone else encountered this? Is it a problem with Windows 2003 or is 1GB the maximum size of the Cygwin root? I'm surprised I wasn't able to find any reference to this problem anywhere so there's likely a very obvious answer to this (again apoligies if that's the case).

THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!

Mark F. Ewert
Principal Systems Architect
Integrated Healthcare Information Services
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