X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Yahoo-SMTP: jenXL62swBAWhMTL3wnej93oaS0ClBQOAKs8jbEbx_o- Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:52:36 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Device names in /proc/mounts Message-ID: <20110730045235.GA17962@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20110729092027.GA19240@calimero.vinschen.de> <9B10FEAACF062F48A095880A451FF05903819B331A@DEMCHP99E84MSX.ww902.siemens.net> <20110729201556.GA13084@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110729201556.GA13084@calimero.vinschen.de> 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 Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:15:56PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Jul 29 15:34, Schwarz, Konrad wrote: >> > > Can you answer the following question: >> > > >> > > Given a volume label, how does one figure out where the >> > corresponding >> > > volume has been mounted into the Cygwin namespace? >> > >> > We're not mounting volumes, we're mounting Win32 paths. >> > There is no direct correspondence between volumes and Cygwin >> > mount points. >> >> When a person inserts removable media (USB memory stick, optical disk, ...), >> Windows assigns a more-or-less random drive letter. >> Cygwin automatically makes this drive letter available >> under /cygdrive/ (or whatever the user has renamed /cygdrive to). >> >> Given a (unique) volume label or disk UUID, blk_id(8) on >> both Linux and Cygwin tells you the disk and partition >> in /dev/sdXY format. > >It does? Interesting. Where does it get the data under Cygwin? Huh. On my system blk_id(8) says "command not found". And, http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=blk_id says "Found 0 matches for blk_id" cgf -- 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