Albrecht Schlosser wrote:
Ralph Hempel wrote:
mount -f -s -b "d:\my_home" "/home/username"
and umount after you are done with it ?
That sounds more like what I want. I really do know how
to do all of this under Linux.
The main reason I'm asking the question here is that some
of you will ha
Ralph Hempel wrote:
Yes, I've read the FAQ on making Cygwin portable :-)
I'd like to have a complete Cygwin environment on a FLASH
drive, but of course using that drive to compile stuff in
my HOME directory will be awfully slow.
Is there a way to create a symlink of a directory on a local
hard
* Larry Hall (Cygwin) (Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:39:11 -0400)
> Ralph Hempel wrote:
> > Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> >> Ralph Hempel wrote:
> >>> Yes, I've read the FAQ on making Cygwin portable :-)
> >>>
> >>> I'd like to have a complete Cygwin environment on a FLASH
> >>> drive, but of course using tha
* Ralph Hempel (Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:31:10 -0400)
> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> > Ralph Hempel wrote:
> >> I'd like to have a complete Cygwin environment on a FLASH
> >> drive, but of course using that drive to compile stuff in
> >> my HOME directory will be awfully slow.
> >
> > Why is that?
>
>
On Aug 20 20:27, Dave Korn wrote:
> Ralph Hempel wrote on 20 August 2008 20:19:
>
>
> > Ooooh. This is nice. How does Cygiwn keep track of this link? Does
> > it survive a reboot?
>
> Yeh, sure, it's a bog-standard softlink implemented using a windows .lnk
> shortcut file just like any other
Ralph Hempel wrote on 20 August 2008 20:19:
> Ooooh. This is nice. How does Cygiwn keep track of this link? Does
> it survive a reboot?
Yeh, sure, it's a bog-standard softlink implemented using a windows .lnk
shortcut file just like any other made by cygwin's "ln" command.
cheers,
Dave Korn wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote on 20 August 2008 19:22:
Ralph Hempel wrote:
Is there a way to create a symlink of a directory on a local
hard drive to the cygwin /home/username/ directory?
No, not across volumes.
Huh? I must be misunderstanding what you mean here:
/ $ df
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote on 20 August 2008 19:22:
> Ralph Hempel wrote:
>> Is there a way to create a symlink of a directory on a local
>> hard drive to the cygwin /home/username/ directory?
>
> No, not across volumes.
Huh? I must be misunderstanding what you mean here:
/ $ df .
Filesyst
Ralph Hempel wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
Ralph Hempel wrote:
Yes, I've read the FAQ on making Cygwin portable :-)
I'd like to have a complete Cygwin environment on a FLASH
drive, but of course using that drive to compile stuff in
my HOME directory will be awfully slow.
Why is that?
C
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
Ralph Hempel wrote:
Yes, I've read the FAQ on making Cygwin portable :-)
I'd like to have a complete Cygwin environment on a FLASH
drive, but of course using that drive to compile stuff in
my HOME directory will be awfully slow.
Why is that?
Creating, wand writing
Ralph Hempel wrote:
Yes, I've read the FAQ on making Cygwin portable :-)
I'd like to have a complete Cygwin environment on a FLASH
drive, but of course using that drive to compile stuff in
my HOME directory will be awfully slow.
Why is that?
Is there a way to create a symlink of a directory
Yes, I've read the FAQ on making Cygwin portable :-)
I'd like to have a complete Cygwin environment on a FLASH
drive, but of course using that drive to compile stuff in
my HOME directory will be awfully slow.
Is there a way to create a symlink of a directory on a local
hard drive to the cygwin /
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