associating device names with cygdrive directories
Rolf Campbell
rcampbell-cygwin@dragonwaveinc.com
Thu Aug 26 12:13:00 GMT 2010
On 2010-08-26 07:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> I have another one:
>
> $ for F in /dev/s* ; do echo "$F $(cygpath -w $F)" ; done
> /dev/sda \\.\PhysicalDrive0
> /dev/sda1 \\.\STORAGE#Volume#{781f8bd6-7d0d-11de-8012-806e6f6e6963}#0000000000100000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}
> /dev/sda2 \\.\Volume{781f8bda-7d0d-11de-8012-806e6f6e6963}
> /dev/sda3 \\.\D:
>
> but there are two problems.
>
> Up to the current Cygwin 1.7.6 the info from /proc/partitions is
> incomplete for non-privileged users. I just checked in a patch to
> Cygwin which allows the full partition info also for non-priv'ed users.
>
> Apart from that, the output of cygpath -w for devices isn't overly
> helpful yet. I look into improving that a bit.
>
>
> Corinna
>
When I run "echo /dev/s*", I only get "/dev/shm /dev/stderr /dev/stdin
/dev/stdout", how/why is yours showing the drive devices?
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