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RE: Any gotcha's in moving cygwin?



> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Jon LaBadie
> Sent: Tuesday, 23 July 2002 9:57 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Any gotcha's in moving cygwin?
> 
> 
> I'm thinking of rearranging my disk space and letting
> cygwin have the entire E drive.  Right now it is in
> c:\cygwin but I would use the e:\ root dir as cygwin's root.
> 
> Any gotcha's in such an arrangement?
> Or in moving things around?

Yup, windows-style symlinks that have drive references in them will
fail, and your mount table needs rebuilding. Oh, and update your path.
That's about it though.

Rob


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