Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.0.20040817123754.0344b868@pop.prospeed.net> X-Sender: Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:40:08 -0400 To: Peter Rehley , "Yihu Li" From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: Question about moving cygwin to another dirve Cc: "cygwin" In-Reply-To: <58386FAC-F000-11D8-8373-000D932D0448@rehley.net> References: <200408170340 DOT i7H3euRq013672 AT qlink DOT queensu DOT ca> <58386FAC-F000-11D8-8373-000D932D0448 AT rehley DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 11:48 PM 8/16/2004, you wrote: >On Aug 16, 2004, at 9:43 PM, Yihu Li wrote: > >>Dear all, >> >>My c drive does not have enough space, so I just copyed the whole folder of cygwin to another drive and expect to run it there. It worked but the problem is that the default folder is still under c:/cygwin, not the new one g:/cygwin. Anyone knows how to map it to the new drive? > >Change the mount information in the registry Sure. But that way is unsupported by this list. Why not just use 'mount'? It works without needing to hack the registry and will always manipulate mount points correctly, even when mount points are no longer stored in the registry. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/