How can I change my Cygwin home folder after installation?

Question

I just installed Cygwin, and it looks like the home directory in the bash prompt is on my Z: drive. That\'s not where I want it.

How can I change this?

Answer 1

I did something quite simple. I did not want to change the windows 7 environment variable. So I directly edited the Cygwin.bat file.

@echo off
SETLOCAL
set HOME=C:\path\to\home
C:
chdir C:\apps\cygwin\bin
bash --login -i
ENDLOCAL

This just starts the local shell with this home directory; that is what I wanted. I am not going to remotely access this, so this worked for me.