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06-12-2015

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MSYS2 on Windows 7 VM

Hello All,

Hopefully I'm posting this in the correct place...

I just recently installed MSYS2 (*32-bit) on a Windows 7 VM I have running on my Linux Host. I have a basic question about User management on MSYS.

MSYS2 i686: Version 20150512

I'm guessing when MSYS gets installed it uses your Window's info, like username/etc to create your user in MSYS and to build your User's HOME dir (*i.e. /home/<win_username>)and stuff like that. Since My Window's User contains my first and last name, when MSYS installed it created my home dir as "/home/First Last", with the whitespace inbetween... This is starting to become a real nuisance. I could not find the file I would normally use to be able fix this, which is "/etc/passwd". So I'm kind of stumped on how I can resolve this.

I didn't want to just rename the HOME dir to something else because I figured that would break the env var HOME and also "~" (*i.e. tilde).

So basically what I want to do is change my Username and Group Name in MSYS, as well as change the Home directory after the username is changed.

Is this possible? Any thoughts or suggestions would be very much appreciated!

Thanks in Advance,
Matt

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unburden-home-dir

UNBURDEN-HOME-DIR(1)						   User Commands					      UNBURDEN-HOME-DIR(1)

NAME

       unburden-home-dir - unburdens home directories from caches and trashes

SYNOPSIS

       unburden-home-dir [ -n | -u | -f filter ]
       unburden-home-dir ( -h | --help | --version )

DESCRIPTION

       unburden-home-dir  unburdens  the  home	directory from files and directory which cause high I/O or disk usage but are neither important if
       they are lost, e.g. caches or trash directory.

       When being run it moves the files and directories given in the configuration file to a location outside the home directory,  e.g.  /tmp	or
       /scratch, and puts appropriate symbolic links in the home directory instead.

OPTIONS

       -f     just  unburden those directory matched by the given filter (a perl regular expression) -- matches the already unburdened directories
	      if used together with -u.

       -F     Do not check for files in use with lsof before (re)moving files.

       -n     dry run (show what would be done)

       -u     undo (reverse the functionality and put stuff back into the home directory)

       -h, --help
	      show this help

       --version
	      show the program's version

EXAMPLES

       Example configuration files can be found at /usr/share/doc/unburden-home-dir/examples on Debian-based systems and in the etc/ directory	of
       the source tar ball.

FILES

       /etc/unburden-home-dir,	 /etc/unburden-home-dir.list,	~/.unburden-home-dir,  ~/.unburden-home-dir.list,  /etc/default/unburden-home-dir,
       /etc/X11/Xsession.d/95unburden-home-dir

       Read /usr/share/doc/unburden-home-dir/README on debianoid installations or README in the source tar ball for an explanation of these files.

SEE ALSO

       corekeeper (http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=corekeeper), autotrash(1), agedu(1), bleachbit(1).

       For du(1)-like but more comfortable tools, see ncdu(1) (text-mode), baobab(1) (GNOME), filelight(1) (KDE), xdiskusage(1)  (X  tool  calling
       du(1) itself), or xdu(1) (X tool reading du(1) output from STDIN).

AUTHOR

       Unburden Home Dir is written and maintained by Axel Beckert <beckert@phys.ethz.ch>

LICENSE

       Unburden Home Dir is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or any later version at your option.

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