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From: Robert Miles <robertmiles AT bellsouth DOT net>
Subject: Re: Can I move Cygwin and Cygwin64 to a drive other than C: ?
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 00:55:51 -0500
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On 4/1/2015 3:47 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr  1 03:26, Robert Miles wrote:
>> The C: drive on one of my 64-bit Windows 7 computers is approaching
>> 90% full, but there are two other drives that are nearly empty.
>>
>> Can I move the entire Cygwin and Cygwin64 directory trees to one
>> of the nearly empty drives, without losing the extra packages I've
>> already downloaded and the files I've created?
>
> Robocopy allows to copy an entire Cygwin tree while keeping all
> permissions intact.  I had good luck with something along the
> lines of
>
>    robocopy C:\cygwin64 D:\cygwin64 /e /purge /z /copyall /sl
>
>
> YMMV,
> Corinna

I tried that on C:\cygwin; it gave an error message without copying
anything.  I suspect that was because this directory tree included
links to the top-level directories of all of the Windows drives,
including the one holding the Windows 7 operating system.

I found a way to see the robocopy instructions; it looks like I'll
need to read them thoroughly in order to tell it to copy the links
but not what they point to.



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