Look at /etc/profile. This uses $HOME if it is set under Windows, otherwise it uses /home/$USER. You can certainly tweak this to your needs. A simpler option may be to mount your new disk on /home, then you don't have to fiddle with $HOME. regards, Markus Laurence F. Wood writes: > Hello, > > I needed to relocate the $HOME directory to another disk volume. Under > linux the login process sets this. Who/what sets $HOME under cygwin? > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Markus Hoenicka, PhD UT Houston Medical School Dept. of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology 6431 Fannin MSB4.114 Houston, TX 77030 (713) 500-6313, -7477 (713) 500-7444 (fax) Markus.Hoenicka@uth.tmc.edu http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hoenicka_markus/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/