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Re: Cygwin permissions gone after move


Greetings, TCP!

> Hi,

> I'm new in cygwin. I installed cygwin at C:\cygwin and after I decided
> to move it to D:\cygwin
> After the moving. The permissions are gone but I got:

You can NOT move between different partitions.
Only copy. And when you copy, permission inheritance takes place.

> $ ls -la
> total 353
> d---------+ 1 Penguin None      0 Jan 22 21:23 .
> d---------+ 1 Penguin None      0 Jan 22 21:23 ..
> ----------+ 1 Penguin None  53342 Jan 21 21:10 Cygwin-Terminal.ico
> ----------+ 1 Penguin None     57 Jan 21 23:45 Cygwin.bat
> ----------+ 1 Penguin None 157097 Jan 21 21:10 Cygwin.ico
> d---------+ 1 Penguin None      0 Jan 27 01:57 bin
> dr-xr-xr-x  4 Penguin None      0 Jan 27 02:08 cygdrive
> d---------+ 1 Penguin None      0 Jan 21 23:44 dev
> d---------+ 1 Penguin None      0 Jan 21 23:49 etc
> d---------+ 1 Penguin None      0 Jan 21 23:50 home
> d---------+ 1 Penguin None      0 Jan 21 23:49 lib
> d---------+ 1 Penguin None      0 Jan 25 01:26 opt
> dr-xr-xr-x  9 Penguin None      0 Jan 27 02:08 proc
> drwxrwxr-x+ 1 Penguin root      0 Jan 22 00:07 sbin
> d---------+ 1 Penguin None      0 Jan 22 00:30 srv
> d---------+ 1 Penguin None      0 Jan 27 02:04 tmp
> d---------+ 1 Penguin None      0 Jan 21 23:44 usr
> d---------+ 1 Penguin None      0 Jan 21 23:44 var


> I figured that setting back permissions of each file is really
> annoying and frustrating.
> And I've installed many packages and it is good if I could not to
> reinstall cygwin.
> How do I fix it?

What exactly you want to fix? Do you have any issues currently?


--
WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 28.01.2012, <19:38>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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