X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 10:17:18 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Device names in /proc/mounts Message-ID: <20110730081718.GC3569@calimero.vinschen.de> 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> <20110730045235.GA17962@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110730045235.GA17962@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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 Jul 30 00:52, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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" Konrad means blkid. It's in the util-linux package. 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