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 Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 15:52:12 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Rolf Campbell cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ls /dev/* In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20041102200113.GA22769@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20041103151252.GD31627@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Rolf Campbell wrote: > 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. True. > I recall that there is a way to access the disks as real devices under > NT/2000/XP using some strange notation. What's wrong with using /dev/sda*? > It might make sense to mount those under /dev/, They already are: "ls /dev/sda", "ls /dev/sda1"... > but to mount your C-drive there would not be consistant with what /dev/ > was designed for. True. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- 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/