win-mounts no longer displays anything when doing "cat /proc/partitions"

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Hashim Aziz!

> I've been using Cygwin loyally for almost 5 years now, and throughout that
> time have found the win-mounts column invaluable to find a drive or USB's
> /dev/sdX mapping, by doing cat /proc/partitions. I haven't run that command
> in a while, however, and today I realised that this functionality no longer
> seems to work - no Windows drive mapping information displays in the
> win-mounts column, so now I'm unable to determine which drive /dev/sdX
> corresponds to.

$ mountvol
[ snip ]
Possible values for VolumeName along with current mount points are:

    \\?\Volume{80006d80-c2bb-4297-93c1-2f6d1a2a8acb}\
        C:\
        C:\dev\sda1\

    \\?\Volume{6833c423-2223-11e4-b07d-806e6f6e6963}\
        *** NO MOUNT POINTS ***

    \\?\Volume{6833c424-2223-11e4-b07d-806e6f6e6963}\
        *** NO MOUNT POINTS ***

    \\?\Volume{9d412aba-0e54-4628-9c6b-b84fb18d062a}\
        *** NO MOUNT POINTS ***

    \\?\Volume{6833c441-2223-11e4-b07d-806e6f6e6963}\
        *** NO MOUNT POINTS ***

    \\?\Volume{6833c442-2223-11e4-b07d-806e6f6e6963}\
        *** NO MOUNT POINTS ***

    \\?\Volume{6833c443-2223-11e4-b07d-806e6f6e6963}\
        *** NO MOUNT POINTS ***

    \\?\Volume{6833c444-2223-11e4-b07d-806e6f6e6963}\
        *** NO MOUNT POINTS ***

    \\?\Volume{1530eb84-587d-11e9-a744-902b3437d8e4}\
        W:\

    \\?\Volume{152b5e11-3180-11e4-9bb8-806e6f6e6963}\
        R:\

$ cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name   win-mounts

    8     0  78150744 sda
    8     1    102400 sda1
    8     2    131072 sda2
    8     3  77916160 sda3   C:\ C:\dev\sda1\
    8    16 488386584 sdb
    8    17 486615520 sdb1
    8    32 312571224 sdc
    8    33 312568641 sdc1
    8    48 488386584 sdd
    8    49 488384512 sdd1
    8    64         0 sde
    8    80         0 sdf
    8    96         0 sdg
    8   112         0 sdh

Seems all right on this end.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, September 20, 2019 1:36:47

Sorry for my terrible english...


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