On 18 Sep 2006 at 15:44, Francis Rossi wrote: > for practical reasons. > The problem with the folder Cygwin is installed to is that when you're > looking for some files on your hard disk, that directory takes a lot of > time in the search because of dozens of thousands files, especially in > /usr.
The next time you install cygwin, partition your drive to have a drive letter just for the cygwin install and then exclude that drive letter from searches. Wes Szumera -- 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/
