On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 12:55:51AM -0500, Robert Miles wrote: > On 4/1/2015 3:47 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Apr 1 03:26, Robert Miles wrote: > >>The C: drive on one of my 64-bit Windows 7 computers is approaching > >>90% full, but there are two other drives that are nearly empty. > >> > >>Can I move the entire Cygwin and Cygwin64 directory trees to one > >>of the nearly empty drives, without losing the extra packages I've > >>already downloaded and the files I've created? > > > >Robocopy allows to copy an entire Cygwin tree while keeping all > >permissions intact. I had good luck with something along the > >lines of > > > > robocopy C:\cygwin64 D:\cygwin64 /e /purge /z /copyall /sl > > > > > >YMMV, > >Corinna > > I tried that on C:\cygwin; it gave an error message without copying > anything. I suspect that was because this directory tree included > links to the top-level directories of all of the Windows drives, > including the one holding the Windows 7 operating system. > > I found a way to see the robocopy instructions; it looks like I'll > need to read them thoroughly in order to tell it to copy the links > but not what they point to. > Yes robocopy does have an option to copy symlinks rather than what they point to: I saw it in the robocopy instructions that you're about to read.
Cheers ... Duncan. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
