moving Cygwin64 to another drive

[Ernie Rael]

On 9/23/2016 7:06 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
> 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

It is elevated, AFAICT. That's the "....,544(Administrators),..." in the 
id command output. BTW, Robocopy seems to accept shellish syntax (saw a 
note in some docs) and have tried both ways.

-ernie


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