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On 9/19/2013 12:16 PM, Rob Siklos wrote:
Background: I wanted my /home directory to point to c:\Users rather than the out-of-the-box home directory created by cygwin. In order to accomplish this, I deleted the existing home folder and created a soft link mapping /home to /cygdrive/c/Users. This works great, except that I notice that every time I run setup.exe, my soft link gets removed and a new profile is created for me the next time I open a Cygwin terminal. Every time this happens, I just delete the new /home folder and re-create the soft link. However, this is getting annoying, so I'm looking for a different solution. My current solution is to just mount it in fstab with the following line: c:/Users /home ntfs binary,posix=0,nouser This is working fine, but now I'm worried about what setup.exe will do to this folder the next time I update Cygwin. Will it be safely left alone, or will my user profile get deleted?
'setup*.exe' won't change this. Alternatively, you can set HOME in your Windows environment to point to the directory you want as your home. Either will work. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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