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RE: Any gotcha's in moving cygwin?
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at syncretize dot net>
- To: "'Jon LaBadie'" <jcyg at jgcomp dot com>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:00:05 +1000
- Subject: 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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