Re: Capturing a Cygwin instance from another PC

2023-12-07 Thread Andrew Schulman via Cygwin
> I have a new Win11 PC, and I wanted to capture the same Cygwin setup that I > have in another Win10 PC. I copied the C:\cygwin64 folder from the Win10 pc > to the Win11 pc, then I downloaded a fresh setup-x86_64.exe from cygwin.com > to the win11 PC. I ran it and chose "Install from Local Dire

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: getVolInfo question

2023-12-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
On Dec 7 18:02, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin wrote: > Thank you for your prompt reply! > > > TRIM is only enabled on a filesystem, if the underlying drive > > actually supports TRIM. The majority of SSDs support it, but not > > necessarily all SSDs. > > > > The above values,

RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: getVolInfo question

2023-12-07 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin
Thank you for your prompt reply! > TRIM is only enabled on a filesystem, if the underlying drive > actually supports TRIM. The majority of SSDs support it, but not > necessarily all SSDs. > > The above values, in particular SSINFO_FLAGS_NO_SEEK_PENALTY being > FALSE, indicate that your drive is

Re: getVolInfo question

2023-12-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
On Dec 7 18:04, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: > On Dec 7 15:35, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin wrote: > > Hi Corinna, > > > > I have a question about this tool getVolInfo that has recently "made the > > news". > > > > Just updated my version to the latest and tried it on

Re: getVolInfo question

2023-12-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
On Dec 7 15:35, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > I have a question about this tool getVolInfo that has recently "made the > news". > > Just updated my version to the latest and tried it on my drive C:, and > specifically this is what bugs me: > > $ /usr

getVolInfo question

2023-12-07 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin
Hi Corinna, I have a question about this tool getVolInfo that has recently "made the news". Just updated my version to the latest and tried it on my drive C:, and specifically this is what bugs me: $ /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo.exe . ... SectorInfoFlags: 0x03 SSINFO_FLAGS_NO_SEEK_PENALTY

Re: Sparse file support for SMB by default? Re: Comment about "Cygwin: sparse support: enable automatic sparsifying of files on SSDs", extend feature to VMware/qemu disks?

2023-12-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
On Dec 7 17:42, Shaddy Baddah via Cygwin wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > On 6/12/2023 8:38 pm, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: > > > If you want to see if a filesystem supports that flag, just use the > > /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo tool: > > > >$ /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo . > >Device Type