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Re: Disk Space for Cygwin
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: Disk Space for Cygwin
- From: "Andreas Eibach" <a dot eibach at gmx dot net>
- Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 22:18:48 +0200
- Cc: "Jon Mitchell" <jonmitchell at softhome dot net>
- References: <3B914701.4B6E9342@softhome.net>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Mitchell" <jonmitchell@softhome.net>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 10:37 PM
Subject: Disk Space for Cygwin
> I have tried to install cygwin to Win95 using setup.exe to a partition
> with 600MB free space but it runs out of disk space.
>
> Using Explorer the C:\cygwin directory has about 185MB after failing but
> I actually have lost 600MB. After deleting C:\Cygwin, I get all 600MB
> back.
>
> Is this normal?
Hold on ... did you accidentally set 'Do not show hidden [and system] files'
in Tools->Options->FileTypes?
Explorer won't of course display the _actual_ size of Cygwin if all that
system files are hidden, because this means that Explorer doesn't _count_
them.
Andreas
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