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There is a way, it's only to change the keys located under
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Cygnus Solutions/Cygwin/mounts v<version>
. I did that, however I couldn't get success.
Here, the free space is changed in accordance with the system user. I
need to use all the free space on the disk independent of the user.
Do you know how to do that?




In the Cygwin User's Guide, there is 

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:03:59 -0500, Larry Hall
<lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> At 02:17 PM 11/29/2004, you wrote:
> 
> 
> >Hi all...
> >I'm having some problems with the limited filesystems size: "No space
> >left on device"
> >
> >[SOPC Builder]$ df -h
> >Filesystem       Size      Used       Avail       Use%       Mounted on
> >C:\quartus\bin\cygwin\bin
> >                        30M      30M         0          100%        /usr/bin
> >C:\quartus\bin\cygwin
> >                        30M      30M         0          100%        /
> >c:                     30M      30M         0          100%       /cygdrive/c
> >d:                     19G      66M       19G           1%        /cygdrive/d
> >f:                      14G      11G       3.7G        74%        /cygdrive/f
> >z:                     30M      30M        0            100%      /cygdrive/z
> >
> >I would like to know if someone knows how to increase this field...
> >there are a lot of free space on disk.
> >
> >I have already tried to modify the mount table in the Windows
> >registry, but I can't get success.
> 
> There is no way to "increase this field".  It's read only and reports
> what's available and what's used.  Based on the output you've provided,
> it seems to me that you have lots of space on your "D" and "F" drives.
> You'd be better off installing Cygwin there.
> 
> Please visit the FAQ <http://cygwin.com/faq/> to find out how to uninstall
> Cygwin so that you can reinstall it on your "D" or "F" drive.
> 
> --
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