Cygwin home location
I've been using cygwin for longer than I care to mention. Never had a problem with it really as it suits me to use it for certain things that Windows truly sucks at.
However, there are a number of issues and I've tried trawling through the cygwin mailing lists which is a laborious task due to their poor web interface design.
I've reinstalled Cygwin as the 64bit version now, which aside from anything has meant that the x86 installed version is not longer needed. Deleting cygwin is reasonably easy except for the dev folder which contain nul which you can't delete. So how can I delete this?
Also as a result of the upgrade, the installation is using C:\Users\myaccountame\ for its home which means when I log in I get:
/cygdrive/c/Users/myaccoun
This is not what I want or what used to be there. In older versions it used to create a home folder in the cygwin folder structure and then make that the home. Now all the bash history is in my Windows folder and the bashrc is also there.
How can I get Cygwin to set the home folder back where it used to be?
However, there are a number of issues and I've tried trawling through the cygwin mailing lists which is a laborious task due to their poor web interface design.
I've reinstalled Cygwin as the 64bit version now, which aside from anything has meant that the x86 installed version is not longer needed. Deleting cygwin is reasonably easy except for the dev folder which contain nul which you can't delete. So how can I delete this?
Also as a result of the upgrade, the installation is using C:\Users\myaccountame\ for its home which means when I log in I get:
/cygdrive/c/Users/myaccoun
This is not what I want or what used to be there. In older versions it used to create a home folder in the cygwin folder structure and then make that the home. Now all the bash history is in my Windows folder and the bashrc is also there.
How can I get Cygwin to set the home folder back where it used to be?
ASKER
I don't want to change the directory in the bashrc, I want the home directory moved back to where cygwin used to have it inside c:\cygwin\home\myaccountna
Try rerunning setup.exe with the -R argument (it specifies the root directory) it is supposed to update as well as install the program.
ASKER
Hi.
Thanks. The root directory is already c:\cygwin64 and that is where it installs to. That is fine. That is where I want it. Once installed cygwin USED to have a folder called home in its root directory and in there was the folder where bash ran from.
Now, instead of that, when I run cygwin it is using my folder in the Users folder in Windows as the home directory.
It seems to be picking $HOME up from the environment variables which points to %USERPROFILE% in Windows which is:
C:\Users\myaccountname\
I could change $HOME in Windows to point to C:\Cygwin64\home\myaccount
Thanks. The root directory is already c:\cygwin64 and that is where it installs to. That is fine. That is where I want it. Once installed cygwin USED to have a folder called home in its root directory and in there was the folder where bash ran from.
Now, instead of that, when I run cygwin it is using my folder in the Users folder in Windows as the home directory.
It seems to be picking $HOME up from the environment variables which points to %USERPROFILE% in Windows which is:
C:\Users\myaccountname\
I could change $HOME in Windows to point to C:\Cygwin64\home\myaccount
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Went to the cygwin mailing list for help in the end. After a few attempts at different things, I got the answer.
putting "cd (your directory path)" in the last line of your .bash_profile (or .profile)