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From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru>
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Greetings, Michael Ludwig!

> My Cygwin resides under C:\cygwin (plus G:\cygvar for packages), but as
> both C: and G: are nearly full, I'd like to move the Cygwin folders to
> partition T: which has plenty of space left.

> Is this safe or are there things such as registry entries that will
> prevent Cygwin from working properly, or even deconfigure or corrupt
> my installation?

There is, but nothing that can really damage your installation.
However, to be on a safe side, you better reinstall it fresh in the new place,
copying over your personal settings.
Look into
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygwin
to deal with recorded installations.


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 Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 27.06.2010, <5:08>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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