Seeing double in /proc/partitions (Win 7 Home)

Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] lavr@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Sat Jul 31 21:12:30 GMT 2021


Hi all,

Is there any special reason that most of my drives are shown twice in /proc/partitions on my home machine?
(it's still Windows 7)

Notably, all drives in between the first (C:) and the last (S:).

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

    8     0 500107608 sda
    8     1    102400 sda1
    8     2 488280064 sda2   C:\
    8    16 1000204632 sdb
    8    17 1000202240 sdb1   D:\
    8    16 1000204632 sdb
    8    17 1000202240 sdb1   D:\
    8    32 1000204632 sdc
    8    33 1000202240 sdc1   G:\
    8    32 1000204632 sdc
    8    33 1000202240 sdc1   G:\
    8    48 1000204632 sdd
    8    49 1000202240 sdd1   I:\
    8    48 1000204632 sdd
    8    49 1000202240 sdd1   I:\
    8    64 234431064 sde
    8    65 234428416 sde1   F:\
    8    64 234431064 sde
    8    65 234428416 sde1   F:\
    8    80   1931264 sdf
    8    81   1931264 sdf1   S:\

$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1 ANTON 3.2.0(0.340/5/3) 2021-03-29 08:42 x86_64 Cygwin

Thanks,

Anton Lavrentiev
Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI



More information about the Cygwin mailing list