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RE: DD over Netcat
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:03:21 +0100
- Subject: RE: DD over Netcat
- References: <18138826.post@talk.nabble.com>
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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