moving Cygwin64 to another drive
Linda Walsh
cygwin@tlinx.org
Sat Sep 24 05:01:00 GMT 2016
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.
----
Not sure if it is important, but are you on the old machine,
trying to copy local files to the new machine? Wasn't clear.
>>> 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.
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Yeah... I had a similar problem. Wanted to copy my Win7 cygwin
install to another machine (WinXPx64). I also had problems with
permission denied as an admin -- in my case, I think they were common
cygwin DLL's. I think they were inuse -- and somehow that prevented
them being copied.
In my case, I was aided by having the other machines 'C' drive
network mounted on Z:\. I was able to copy the couple (3 actually)
of files that failed, manually, to old-machine's /tmp. There they weren't
files that would be in use && then I could copy them across the net with
anything. Since both machines had write access to each other's C: drive,
I copied the files from old's /tmp to the bin & lib directories where these
files lived. Once that was done it started functioning.
Maybe that will give you some ideas? I was sorta in the dark as
to what was causing the failure as well, so I poked about... ;-)
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