X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:26:41 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: associating device names with cygdrive directories Message-ID: <20100826112641.GB21513@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4C757349.902@bellsouth.net> <20100825200335.GA14607@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20946F38B4B@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20946F38B4B@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 Aug 25 16:32, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 02:47:21PM -0500, Charles D. Russell wrote: > >On Linux, the mount command reveals the association between filesystem > >names and /dev/ names, but Cygwin mount doesn't tell. > > Is this what you want? (The multiple spaces are really tabs.) > > $ for F in /dev/s* ; do echo "$F $(cygpath -w $F)" ; done I have another one: $ for F in /dev/s* ; do echo "$F $(cygpath -w $F)" ; done /dev/sda \\.\PhysicalDrive0 /dev/sda1 \\.\STORAGE#Volume#{781f8bd6-7d0d-11de-8012-806e6f6e6963}#0000000000100000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b} /dev/sda2 \\.\Volume{781f8bda-7d0d-11de-8012-806e6f6e6963} /dev/sda3 \\.\D: but there are two problems. Up to the current Cygwin 1.7.6 the info from /proc/partitions is incomplete for non-privileged users. I just checked in a patch to Cygwin which allows the full partition info also for non-priv'ed users. Apart from that, the output of cygpath -w for devices isn't overly helpful yet. I look into improving that a bit. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple