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Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 11:09:49 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: doc suggestions for User Guide's "Special filenames", including `cat /proc/partitions`
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On Mar  8 00:36, S Page wrote:
> I was trying to figure out what device mapped to my USB flash drive.
> I eventually used `cat /proc/partitions` to determine it was
> /dev/sdb1.
> 
> http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html

Can you please check against the latest documentation under
http://www.cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html
and see if it explains anything better in this regard?

If not, I'm open to suggestions to make the documentation clearer,
preferredly as unified diffs against the source sgml files, which
you can find, for instance, here:
http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/doc/?cvsroot=src


Corinna

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