Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Rolf Campbell Subject: Re: ls /dev/* Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 15:02:37 -0500 Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <20041102200113.GA22769@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20041103151252.GD31627@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ottgw.tropicnetworks.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> While, you are welcome to redefine /cygdrive any way you want, the >> unix paradigm does not put filesystems under /dev. That is for devices. > To me, a disk drive IS a device. YMMV! :-) A disk drive is a device, but /cygdrive/c is not a disk-drive. It's a file-system contained in a partition contained on a disk-drive (usually). In unix-like systems, the disk-drive and the partition are available as devices along with the file-system. The disk-drive in /dev/ is a flat-device. All bytes available sequentially as a single image. I recall that there is a way to access the disks as real devices under NT/2000/XP using some strange notation. It might make sense to mount those under /dev/, but to mount your C-drive there would not be consistant with what /dev/ was designed for. -Rolf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/