Fu**ing Microsoft - I figured it out. I did the installation on Windows 2003 Small Business Server and by default it sets a 1GB quota for each user on the C:\ drive. Grrrr.... In any event - if anyone else is silly enough to use Windows 2003 SBS - definitely add Cygwin to it but disable the miserable quota! :)
Mark -----Original Message----- From: Mark Ewert Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 7:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Root (/) size problem\limitation? I just did another install on an XP system with a single (non-mirrored) 40GB c:\ drive and Cygwin can properly see and utilize the entire drive. I'm going to wipe the installation on Windows 2003 and try it again. I'll report back the results if I have the same problem. Mark -----Original Message----- From: Mark Ewert Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 6:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Root (/) size problem\limitation? Greetings, I've been searching for an answer to this problem for hours (literally) and have not been able to find one in any of the Cygwin FAQs, documentation, mailing-lists, newsgroups or Google. So apologies in advance if the answer to this is obvious. I have installed Cygwin (latest version) on Windows 2003 in the default directory (c:\cygwin). The installation is on a mirrored 8GB dynamic NTFS volume with over 4GB's of free space after the Cygwin install. The problem is that when Cygwin installed, it somehow automagically created a disk partition (sda) of only 1GB in size which by default contains all of the installation. After the install I have less than 100MB's free and have not been able to figure out any way to increase the size of the root partition either as part of the installation or afterwards. Normally in Unix I could use fdisk or cfdisk to create new partitions (and move root) or expand root - but those tools are not available in Cygwin. If at all possible I'd like to either enable Cygwin to have a partition up to 3GB's in size. I could always create new cygwin folders either on the C:\ drive or other drives in the system and then move\re-mount /usr or other directories but I'd rather keep the install as close to standard as possible. Has anyone else encountered this? Is it a problem with Windows 2003 or is 1GB the maximum size of the Cygwin root? I'm surprised I wasn't able to find any reference to this problem anywhere so there's likely a very obvious answer to this (again apoligies if that's the case). THANKS FOR YOUR HELP! Mark F. Ewert Principal Systems Architect Integrated Healthcare Information Services --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail and the information transmitted within it is intended only for the recipient(s) to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of; or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please send the e-mail back to notify the sender and delete the message and its contents from any computers and network systems involved in its receipt. Thank you. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail and the information transmitted within it is intended only for the recipient(s) to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of; or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please send the e-mail back to notify the sender and delete the message and its contents from any computers and network systems involved in its receipt. Thank you. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail and the information transmitted within it is intended only for the recipient(s) to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of; or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please send the e-mail back to notify the sender and delete the message and its contents from any computers and network systems involved in its receipt. Thank you. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
