Relating device names in /dev/ to drive letters in Windows.

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jul 23 12:29, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin wrote:
> On 23/07/2020 10:36, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have noticed that after plugging in a USB drive, device files appear
> > in /dev that correlate to the partitions on the drive.
> >
> > This is great because it means things like ddrescue can work in Cygwin,
> > but I'm not yet sure how to relate these to the drives Windows sees.
> > None of the standard Linux tools I use to gather system information
> > (lsblk, blkid, lshw) seem to be available on Cygwin. I'm guessing this
> > is because they won't work because there's no kernel or low level
> > hardware access or something like that. Does anyone know how to do this?
> >
> > Hamish
> >
> Just replying to note that I found
> https://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html, which
> covers some of my question.
> 
> However, some things (like build in CD/DVD drives) don't show up in
> /proc/partitions, so that's still not ideal. Also is there any way I can
> get Make/Model and similar information from Cygwin?

The smartmontools package may help you there.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
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