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Re: increasing filesystems size
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@cygwin.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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