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On 7/21/2011 2:37 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 7/21/2011 5:13 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
>>> From: Corinna Vinschen
>>> On Jul 21 07:43, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
>>>> FWIW, I'm not running as administrator and I'm running 1.7.9, and I'm
>>>> seeing the same thing:
>>> What system?  XP, Vista?  7?
>>> What's the output of `id'?
>>
>> $ /usr/lib/csih/winProductName
>> Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (build 2600)
>> $ id
>> uid=12779(knellis) gid=10545(knellis) 
>> groups=10545(knellis),0(root),544(Administrators),545(Users)
>> $ uname -r
>> 1.7.9(0.237/5/3)
>> $
>>
>> cygcheck -svr output attached
>
> Thanks.  Are you doing the above steps from a directory on your C or D
> drive?  If D, is it an internal drive to that machine?  If not, can
> you tell us the kind of drive it is and send the results of
> /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo.exe /cygdrive/d to the list.  If you don't
> have getVolInfo, please install the csih package.
I'm seeing the exact same behavior. I see this on my C drive (I cd'ed to 
/tmp). The drive is:

Usscandrewdl:/usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo.exe /cygdrive/c
Device Type        : 7
Characteristics    : 20
Volume Name        : <>
Serial Number      : 2956864138
Max Filenamelength : 255
Filesystemname     : <NTFS>
Flags              : 700ff
   FILE_CASE_SENSITIVE_SEARCH  : TRUE
   FILE_CASE_PRESERVED_NAMES   : TRUE
   FILE_UNICODE_ON_DISK        : TRUE
   FILE_PERSISTENT_ACLS        : TRUE
   FILE_FILE_COMPRESSION       : TRUE
   FILE_VOLUME_QUOTAS          : TRUE
   FILE_SUPPORTS_SPARSE_FILES  : TRUE
   FILE_SUPPORTS_REPARSE_POINTS: TRUE
   FILE_SUPPORTS_REMOTE_STORAGE: FALSE
   FILE_VOLUME_IS_COMPRESSED   : FALSE
   FILE_SUPPORTS_OBJECT_IDS    : TRUE
   FILE_SUPPORTS_ENCRYPTION    : TRUE
   FILE_NAMED_STREAMS          : TRUE
   FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME       : FALSE
   FILE_SEQUENTIAL_WRITE_ONCE  : FALSE
   FILE_SUPPORTS_TRANSACTIONS  : FALSE


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