X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Rocket-MIMEInfo: 001.001,ZnJvbSAvY3lnZHJpdmUKCmkgaGF2ZW4ndCBkb25lIGl0IGJlZm9yZSBpbiBsaW51eCBlaXRoZXIsIHNvIG1heWJlIGknbSBtYWtpbmcgYW4gZWxlbWVudGFyeSBlcnJvci4KCmhvd2NvbWUgaXQgZmFpbHMgaGVyZSB3aXRoIGRkIGFuZCBjYXQ_CgokIGRkIGlmPS9jeWdkcml2ZS9nIG9mPS9jeWdkcml2ZS9jL2NycC90ZXN0LmltZwpkZDogcmVhZGluZyBgL2N5Z2RyaXZlL2cnOiBJcyBhIGRpcmVjdG9yeQowKzAgcmVjb3JkcyBpbgowKzAgcmVjb3JkcyBvdXQKMCBieXRlcyAoMCBCKSBjb3BpZWQsIDAuMDA1NDIBMAEBAQE- Message-ID: <1358054596.94941.YahooMailClassic@web171902.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 05:23:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Marilo Reply-To: narium85-mlscar@yahoo.co.uk Subject: how do I clone a drive in cygwin? To: cygwin@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id r0D5NacY023231 from /cygdrive i haven't done it before in linux either, so maybe i'm making an elementary error. howcome it fails here with dd and cat? $ dd if=/cygdrive/g of=/cygdrive/c/crp/test.img dd: reading `/cygdrive/g': Is a directory 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.00542876 s, 0.0 kB/s cat also fails on it (even before trying to redirect) $ cat g cat: g: Is a directory -- 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