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RE: DD over Netcat


Jwelch wrote on 26 June 2008 18:13:

> I've been trying to do a block copy of one of my systems but I'm having an
> issue with finding the partition on cygwin. When I go to /dev, I don't see
> my hard drives so I can't do a DD. 

  Even though you don't see them, they are there.  The /dev filesystem is
(more-or-less) entirely synthetic under cygwin.  See here for the details of
the device names you'll want to use:

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html

Note especially the first paragraph under "POSIX devices".

    cheers,
      DaveK
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