moving Cygwin64 to another drive

[Brian Inglis]

On 2016-09-23 19:26, Ernie Rael wrote:
> On 9/23/2016 4:28 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> On 2016-09-23 17:11, Ernie Rael wrote:
>>> I found a thread, https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-04/msg00008.html,
>>> from last year where Corinna suggests the following (which works for her; she notes YMMV)
>>>         robocopy C:\cygwin64 F:\cygwin64 /e /purge /z /copyall /sl
>>> On Win7, I'm on a old cygwin installation (thought I'd copy to more spacious disk before updating) I tried this command after ssh to an admin account, but the command terminates with
>>>     100%        New File                 210        shells
>>>     100%        New File                1595        ssh_config
>>>                 New File                 668 ssh_host_dsa_key
>>>     2016/09/23 14:54:53 ERROR 5 (0x00000005) Copying File C:\cygwin64\etc\ssh_host_dsa_key
>>>     Access is denied.
>>> where
>>>     $ ls -l ssh_host_dsa_key
>>>     -rw------- 1 cyg_server Administrators 668 Apr 20  2014 ssh_host_dsa_key
>>> I don't know much about windows. Any ideas on how to get this to work?
>>
>> Run robocopy as admin from an elevated command shell (bash or cmd) with Administrator privileges.
>>
> Simply running as admin doesn't solve the problem.
>
>     $ robocopy C:/cygwin64 F:/cygwin64 -e -purge -z -copyall -sl
>
>     ....
>     100%        New File                 210        shells
>     100%        New File                1595        ssh_config
>                 New File                 668 ssh_host_dsa_key
>     2016/09/23 18:06:38 ERROR 5 (0x00000005) Copying File C:\cygwin64\etc\ssh_host_dsa_key
>     Access is denied.
>     Waiting 30 seconds...
>
>     ADMIN erra@spirit ~
>     $ id
>     uid=1000(erra) gid=513(None) groups=513(None),544(Administrators),545(Users),1007(HomeOffice)

Try from elevated Command Prompt (Admin) with expected path delimiters and switch chars:
	> robocopy C:\cygwin64 F:\cygwin64 /e /purge /z /copyall /sl
I've had success with:
	... /s /copyall /xj /sl /mt:8 /r:0 /w:0 /ndl /nfl /np
but YMMV
-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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