moving Cygwin64 to another drive

[Brian Inglis]

On 2016-09-23 17:11, Ernie Rael wrote:
> I found a thread, https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-04/msg00008.html,
> from last year where Corinna suggests the following (which works for her; she notes YMMV)
>         robocopy C:\cygwin64 F:\cygwin64 /e /purge /z /copyall /sl
> On Win7, I'm on a old cygwin installation (thought I'd copy to more spacious disk before updating) I tried this command after ssh to an admin account, but the command terminates with
>     100%        New File                 210        shells
>     100%        New File                1595        ssh_config
>                 New File                 668 ssh_host_dsa_key
>     2016/09/23 14:54:53 ERROR 5 (0x00000005) Copying File C:\cygwin64\etc\ssh_host_dsa_key
>     Access is denied.
> where
>     $ ls -l ssh_host_dsa_key
>     -rw------- 1 cyg_server Administrators 668 Apr 20  2014 ssh_host_dsa_key
> I don't know much about windows. Any ideas on how to get this to work?

Run robocopy as admin from an elevated command shell (bash or cmd) with Administrator privileges.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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