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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:37:00 +0200
From: Markus Hoenicka <markus DOT hoenicka AT mhoenicka DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Changing the home directory ($HOME)
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Phil Couling <couling AT gmail DOT com> was heard to say:

> I have cygwin pre installed on a pc I'm using.  I'd like to change the
> home directory ($HOME) but I'm having some trouble finding where it's
> been set.  Currently it points to a drive letter q: . I'd much prefer
> to point it at /home/username.

/etc/profile says:

# Here is how HOME is set, in order of priority, when starting from Windows
#  1) From existing HOME in the Windows environment, translated to a  
Posix path
#  2) from /etc/passwd, if there is an entry with a non empty directory field
#  3) from HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH
#  4) / (root)

I've used #1.

HTH
Markus

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