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Date: | Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:42:08 -0500 |
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Maybe it won't always work, but with debian "mount" I get the following line of output, which tells me what I want to know (and more): /dev/sda1 on /live/image type vfat (rw,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,allow_utime=177777,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8) I infer from the replies that in Cygwin there is no easier way to find my way around in /dev than the way I was doing it, though I realize "strings" is a better choice than "od". With dd if=/dev/sda|strings|less I discovered that /dev/sda is actually my hard drive. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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