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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 drive to the cygwin /home/username/ directory?

If not a symlink, then some variation of mount. What about

mount -f -s -b "d:\my_home" "/home/username"

and umount after you are done with it ?

Albrecht


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