Moving Cygwin directory safe?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 03:37:26PM +0200, Michael Ludwig wrote:
>Michael Ludwig schrieb am 27.06.2010 um 11:55 (+0200):
>
>> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygwin\Installations]
>> "c5e39b7a9d22bafb"="\\??\\C:\\cygwin"
>> 
>> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygwin\Program Options]
>> 
>> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygwin\setup]
>> "rootdir"="C:\\cygwin"
>> -------------------------
>> 
>> Looks like I should be able to fix those paths after moving C:\cygwin.
>
>I copied C:\cygwin to T: instead of reinstalling. Here's a list of
>things I had to fix (or fixed preemptively):
>
>* fixed the above registry settings

...which was not necessary.


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