X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 11:09:49 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: doc suggestions for User Guide's "Special filenames", including `cat /proc/partitions` Message-ID: <20090308100949.GP31459@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <6509bebe0903080036h78d62a51j3b32b464736cff1a@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6509bebe0903080036h78d62a51j3b32b464736cff1a@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-02-20) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Mar 8 00:36, S Page wrote: > I was trying to figure out what device mapped to my USB flash drive. > I eventually used `cat /proc/partitions` to determine it was > /dev/sdb1. > > http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html Can you please check against the latest documentation under http://www.cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html and see if it explains anything better in this regard? If not, I'm open to suggestions to make the documentation clearer, preferredly as unified diffs against the source sgml files, which you can find, for instance, here: http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/doc/?cvsroot=src Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/