----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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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