setup.exe and disk fragmentation

[David T-G]

Cliff, et al --

...and then Cliff Hones said...
% 
% Having discovered the disk containing my Cygwin installation
% was heavily fragmented, I tried the following experiment:
...
% developing the utility.  Minimising file copying, and deleting
% temporary files as soon as possible would help.

I don't know anything about how it works or how the tmp stuff is used
(a build area + a quick mv, or a temp-use-delete?), but perhaps allowing
for another partition, even asking the user for one, (and taking note
of $TMP?)  could help...


HTH & HAND

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