increasing filesystems size

[Reini Urban]

Maikon Bueno schrieb:
> There is a way, it's only to change the keys located under
> "HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Cygnus Solutions/Cygwin/mounts v<version>
> . I did that, however I couldn't get success.
> Here, the free space is changed in accordance with the system user. I
> need to use all the free space on the disk independent of the user.
> Do you know how to do that?

In Korea only old people need to free their harddisc. (slashdot joke)

> In the Cygwin User's Guide, there is 
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:03:59 -0500, Larry Hall
> <lh-no-personal-replies-please@cygwin.com> wrote:
> 
>>At 02:17 PM 11/29/2004, you wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hi all...
>>>I'm having some problems with the limited filesystems size: "No space
>>>left on device"
>>>
>>>[SOPC Builder]$ df -h
>>>Filesystem       Size      Used       Avail       Use%       Mounted on
>>>C:\quartus\bin\cygwin\bin
>>>                       30M      30M         0          100%        /usr/bin
>>>C:\quartus\bin\cygwin
>>>                       30M      30M         0          100%        /
>>>c:                     30M      30M         0          100%       /cygdrive/c
>>>d:                     19G      66M       19G           1%        /cygdrive/d
>>>f:                      14G      11G       3.7G        74%        /cygdrive/f
>>>z:                     30M      30M        0            100%      /cygdrive/z
>>>
>>>I would like to know if someone knows how to increase this field...
>>>there are a lot of free space on disk.
>>>
>>>I have already tried to modify the mount table in the Windows
>>>registry, but I can't get success.
>>
>>There is no way to "increase this field".  It's read only and reports
>>what's available and what's used.  Based on the output you've provided,
>>it seems to me that you have lots of space on your "D" and "F" drives.
>>You'd be better off installing Cygwin there.
>>
>>Please visit the FAQ <http://cygwin.com/faq/> to find out how to uninstall
>>Cygwin so that you can reinstall it on your "D" or "F" drive.


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