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Re: Cygwin filesystem
On 18 Sep 2006 at 15:44, Francis Rossi wrote:
> for practical reasons.
> The problem with the folder Cygwin is installed to is that when you're
> looking for some files on your hard disk, that directory takes a lot of
> time in the search because of dozens of thousands files, especially in
> /usr.
The next time you install cygwin, partition your drive to have a
drive letter just for the cygwin install and then exclude that drive
letter from searches.
Wes Szumera
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