moving Cygwin64 to another drive

Marco Atzeri marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Sat Sep 24 07:28:00 GMT 2016


On 24/09/2016 03:26, 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

>>
>> 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 with options
    /ZB :: use restartable mode; if access denied use Backup mode.

Regards
Marco


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