Re: copy cygwin installation to a different location and preserving all "cygwin" rights

2010-11-13 Thread Thomas Jung
Hello Andrew, Have you tried cp(1) and/or mv(1)? Ups, of course and you are right. Sorry, a stupid qustion but didn't expected that I can copy while the cyygwin files/libs are in use. Works perfect. Thanks for that hint. Thomas -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FA

Re: copy cygwin installation to a different location and preserving all "cygwin" rights

2010-11-10 Thread Václav Haisman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Thomas Jung wrote, On 10.11.2010 14:40: > Hello, > > I would like to "move" my cygwin installation to > a different location, but preserving the usual paths to > all the apps by using a junction point to that moved/copied > subtree of cygwin. > > T

Re: copy cygwin installation to a different location and preserving all "cygwin" rights

2010-11-10 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Have you tried cp(1) and/or mv(1)? On 11/10/2010 08:40 AM, Thomas Jung wrote: Hello, I would like to "move" my cygwin installation to a different location, but preserving the usual paths to all the apps by using a junction point to that moved/copied subtree of cygwin. The 1st main problem ist

copy cygwin installation to a different location and preserving all "cygwin" rights

2010-11-10 Thread Thomas Jung
Hello, I would like to "move" my cygwin installation to a different location, but preserving the usual paths to all the apps by using a junction point to that moved/copied subtree of cygwin. The 1st main problem ist that copy/move with the windows explorer (xcopy) doesn't preserve all the rights