From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18443 invoked by alias); 20 Aug 2008 16:15:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 18225 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Aug 2008 16:15:37 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nicole.bmts.com (HELO nicole.bmts.com) (216.183.128.225) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:14:58 +0000 Received: from [192.168.254.14] (cheetah-tiv-ppp980.bmts.com [216.183.134.202]) by nicole.bmts.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m7KGEsWT011744 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:14:55 -0400 Message-ID: <48AC42FE.9090108@bmts.com> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:15:00 -0000 From: Ralph Hempel User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Cygwin 1.7 on a FLASH Drive Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Bruce Telecom 519.368.2000 for more information X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner-From: rhempel@bmts.com X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2008-08/txt/msg00184.txt.bz2 Yes, I've read the FAQ on making Cygwin portable :-) I'd like to have a complete Cygwin environment on a FLASH drive, but of course using that drive to compile stuff in my HOME directory will be awfully slow. Is there a way to create a symlink of a directory on a local hard drive to the cygwin /home/username/ directory? Are there any features in 1.7 that will make a portable cygwin easier to maintain? Ralph