using cygwin with an encrypted external drive

[Keeler, Lisa]

Hello,

I love Cygwin, and have used it for many years so that I can use emacs, grep, and all other useful linux tools against my Windows file system.

I have the latest version of Cygwin:  2.903  64bit

Previously, I had an external passport drive which was not encrypted, and I was able to use it in Cygwin just fine, no problem, using /cygdrive/d/...

Now, my external passport drive has been encrypted by McAfee encryption, per policy for my company.

Now, I can see the files OK on the Windows File Explorer, but when I look at the /cygdrive/d in Cygwin, I see nothing useful at all.

Below is a comparison between what I see in Cygwin -vs- what I see from a Windows command prompt:

LKEELER@AM-lkeeler-W3 /cygdrive/d
$ ls -la
total 6209
drwxr-xr-x 1 LKEELER ADPROD+Group(513)       0 Mar 19 08:06  .
dr-xr-xr-x 1 LKEELER ADPROD+Group(513)       0 Mar 20 09:49  ..
-r--r--r-- 1 LKEELER ADPROD+Group(513)     134 Mar 18 18:00  autorun.inf
drwxr-xr-x 1 LKEELER ADPROD+Group(513)       0 Mar 18 18:00 'McAfee EERM'
drwxr-xr-x 1 LKEELER ADPROD+Group(513)       0 Mar 18 18:00 'McAfee Removable Media Protection.app'
-r-xr-xr-x 1 LKEELER ADPROD+Group(513)  669840 Jul 10  2019  mfecc32.dll
-r-xr-xr-x 1 LKEELER ADPROD+Group(513) 5418752 Jul 10  2019  MfeEERM.exe
drwxr-xr-x 1 LKEELER ADPROD+Group(513)       0 Mar 19 08:07 'System Volume Information'
^[]0;/cygdrive/d^G
LKEELER@AM-lkeeler-W3 /cygdrive/d
$

D:\>dir
Volume in drive D is MY PASSPORT
Volume Serial Number is 07D6-45BC

Directory of D:\

03/18/2020  07:44 PM    <DIR>          ADDM
03/18/2020  07:45 PM    <DIR>          Dropbox
03/18/2020  07:47 PM    <DIR>          Customer
01/13/2016  02:49 PM            30,258 KTTraining.docx
02/26/2015  02:48 PM           144,384 Sftp_User.doc
11/09/2018  02:11 PM            70,997 Winsock Reset (Avecto).docx
03/18/2020  04:58 PM    <DIR>          CMDB
03/18/2020  04:58 PM    <DIR>          HELIX_DISCOVERY_ACCELERATORS
03/18/2020  04:59 PM    <DIR>          pictures
02/24/2017  11:43 AM         1,277,989 jackie.zip
03/05/2020  09:59 AM    <DIR>          CUSTOMIZATION101
03/05/2020  12:40 PM    <DIR>          DiscoveryCustomization101
03/18/2020  05:22 PM    <DIR>          Customer3
               4 File(s)      1,523,628 bytes
               9 Dir(s)  1,909,672,902,656 bytes free

Thanks,
Lisa Keeler
BMC Software
Lisa_keeler@bmc.com<mailto:Lisa_keeler@bmc.com>