>So let me get this right. Because Windows Search is slow you want
>have cygwin put its files a different partition? Cygwin's setup put
>the files exactly where you told it. It suggested C:\cygwin to you
>but you did not have to put them there. You made the choice and it is
>very easy to move them if you want to.
Be careful with what you write! I meant "to put files into a virtual filesystem",
not partition in > the Windows terms. You suggest C:\cygwin and instead of the big folder
C:\cygwin\usr
there will be one big file. When you run Cygwin, this file will be mounted as /usr
folder. Have > you ever mounted iso-images on Linux? It's absolutely the same
principle. You mount it into > a folder in f.ex. /mnt/iso directory and access its
files as on normal filesystem (be it ro or rw).
I wrote exact what I meant. In the Cygwin Setup it asks for
Installation Root directory. You don't have to have that set to
C:\cygwin, you can put it anywhere as long as Windows sees it as a
valid windows directory. The mounts are controlled via a registry
entry or via a mount command. If you originally put them on C:\cygwin,
you can copy files to the new directory and edit the registry and
change the cygwin.bat.
If you want to have a virtual file system for cygwin, rock on. The
bottom line is that if Windows can't see it as a "directory" won't
work.
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