change /usr ?

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)]

Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
> Guilaume,
> 
> You should think *very* carefully before doing this, but if you are 
> *really* sure you want to, you can use the mount command to remount /usr 
> from c:\cygwin\usr to c:\usr
> $ mount c:\usr /usr
> or 
> $ mount -b c:\usr /usr
> will do this for you.
> 
> I should re-iterate, though, that this is probably a *bad* idea.

Actually, unless the user knows what they are doing, a more foolproof
way of making this change is to delete the old installation and make
a new one in setup targeting "C:\" instead of "C:\Cygwin".


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