X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:06:21 +0100 Reply-To: "Christian Franke" To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-UMS: email X-Mailer: TOI Kommunikationscenter V9-2-23 Subject: Mount of VSS volumes (//?/GLOBALROOT/...) does not work From: "Christian Franke" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1KyQ6X-0Eq5dw0@fwd11.aul.t-online.de> X-ID: ZqU0+cZlghlTQcQT1FHXCdfhs5t722lzzj0YhPTo6e8kwa8e8xFTMVfUuMtu21wglq@t-dialin.net X-TOI-MSGID: 2fedee2e-14a9-4fc8-97e3-f95b1f223bd9 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 According to http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2007-05/msg00359.html http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-patches/2006-q4/msg00008.html Cygwin includes support to mount a //?/GLOBALROOT/... path But it does not work for me (Tested on XP SP2 with 'vshadow -wait C:' running): Cygwin 1.7.0-31: # mount '//?/GLOBALROOT/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1' /tmp/vss1 # mount C:OBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1 on /tmp/vss1 type unknown ... Cygwin 1.5.25-15: # mount '//?/GLOBALROOT/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1' /tmp/vss1 mount: /tmp/vss1: Invalid argument Same when using '\' instead of '/'. Workaround: Map VSS volume to a drive letter X: (http://blogs.msdn.com/adioltean/archive/2006/09/18/761515.aspx) Christian -- 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/