tar a filesystem outside of /cygwin

David Starks-Browning starksb@ebi.ac.uk
Tue Dec 12 09:53:00 GMT 2000


On Tuesday 12 Dec 00, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) writes:
> At 12:15 PM 12/12/2000, John F. Davis wrote:
> >Hello
> >
> >I am trying to tar a filesystem outside of /cygwin.  I saw in the faq
> >the note about not installing cygwin in the c:/ direcotry.  Copying the
> >filesystem outside /cygwin to /cygwin so I can do a tar is not an option.
> >This is a rather large filesystem I am trying to tar.
> >
> >Any other ideas?
> >
> >John
> 
> See http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC43 .

Actually, he means "How can I access other drives?" somewhere in
< http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/faq/faq_toc.html >.  :-)

Regards,
David


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