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Subject: Re: copy cygwin installation to a different location and preserving all "cygwin" rights
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:31:01 -0500
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  Have you tried cp(1) and/or mv(1)?

On 11/10/2010 08:40 AM, Thomas Jung wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to "move" my cygwin installation to
> a different location, but preserving the usual paths to
> all the apps by using a junction point to that moved/copied
> subtree of cygwin.
>
> The 1st main problem ist that copy/move with the windows
> explorer (xcopy) doesn't preserve all the rights.
>
> How can I copy the whole cygwin subtree to a new location
> an preserving all the "cgwin/unix-styled" rights (I don't mean the
> windows rights)
>
> With windows it would look like:
>
> xcopy C:\cygwin\*.* H:\cygwin\ /e /y
> move C:\cygwin C:\cygwinOld
> mklink /j C:\cygwin H:\cygwin
>
> But that doesn't preserve the usual "unix" rights inside the cygwin
> installation. But how can I do such a task?
>
> Thomas
>
>
>
>

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