From: "cyg Simple" <cygsimple@gmail.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: Can I move Cygwin and Cygwin64 to a drive other than C: ?
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2015 13:28:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <03de01d06d48$e61eb770$b25c2650$@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150402081749.GF13285@calimero.vinschen.de>
> From: Corinna Vinschen
>
> That doesn't make sense either. The symlinks created by setup or Cygwin tools
> are using POSIX paths, not Windows paths. Since you're moving the Cygwin
> installation as a whole, the reference point for the POSIX root dir moves as well.
> From the Windows (i.e. robocopy) perspective, those symlinks are simple files
> with arbitrary content and the DOS system bit set.
>
I've had issues where I forget to modify /etc/fstab for the new device.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-02 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-01 8:35 Robert Miles
2015-04-01 8:47 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-01 8:52 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-02 5:56 ` Robert Miles
2015-04-02 8:17 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-02 13:28 ` cyg Simple [this message]
2015-04-02 14:09 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-04 18:46 ` Eric Pement
2015-04-04 19:05 ` Andrey Repin
2015-04-04 20:43 ` LRN
2015-04-06 21:47 ` Duncan Roe
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