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Re: Moving Cygwin directory safe?
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at freemail dot ru>
- To: Michael Ludwig <milu71 at gmx dot de>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 05:10:50 +0400
- Subject: Re: Moving Cygwin directory safe?
- References: <20100626141016.GD3672@wladimir>
- Reply-to: Andrey Repin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Greetings, Michael Ludwig!
> My Cygwin resides under C:\cygwin (plus G:\cygvar for packages), but as
> both C: and G: are nearly full, I'd like to move the Cygwin folders to
> partition T: which has plenty of space left.
> Is this safe or are there things such as registry entries that will
> prevent Cygwin from working properly, or even deconfigure or corrupt
> my installation?
There is, but nothing that can really damage your installation.
However, to be on a safe side, you better reinstall it fresh in the new place,
copying over your personal settings.
Look into
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygwin
to deal with recorded installations.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 27.06.2010, <5:08>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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