setup.exe and disk fragmentation
David T-G
davidtg-cygwin@justpickone.org
Fri Jun 7 12:27:00 GMT 2002
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
:-D
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