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Hi, of course, you could change something in /etc/passwd to define a new home directory. However, it is good to have the convention of home directories being under one root (at least for non-administrative accounts). Therefore, my preferred solution is to make a symbolic link. /home/USER => /cygdrive/d/tools/... You can have symbolic links with relative paths as a destination, however, that would assume you still are in the directory universe of Cygwin. In this case, you are not. Therefore, you have to address this via /cygdrive/... Besides... what is the advantage of having a relative path here, anyway? If you install different flavours of Cygwin as siblings under a common root, the absolute path will be the same for all instances. Cheers, --J. On 09.09.2017 09:53, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 09/09/2017 07:06, Ben Stover via cygwin wrote: >> By default the user folder of Cygwin (under Win7) is in a subdirectory >> >> <installation folder>\home\<username> > > from cygwin point of view "/home/<username>" > >> How can I put it into a separate directory OUTSIDE of Cygwin? >> >> Example: >> >> I installed Cygwin in >> >> D:\tools\cygwin\v2\ >> >> and want to put my (resp. all) home directories into >> >> D:\tools\cygwin\myhome\ >> >> If possible I would like to specify my new home directory not as >> absolute but as relative path. >> >> I would prefer a customization somwhow in "Cygwin.bat" like: >> >> set cygwinhome=..\myhome >> >> Mind the double dots standing for "go up one level". >> >> How can I achieve this? >> >> Ben >> > > > mkpasswd -c >> /etc/passwd > > change the fifth field of "/etc/passwd" > from "/home/<username>" > to "/cygdrive/d/tools/cygwin/myhome" > > > close all cygwin process and rerun. > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > >
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