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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 20:26:33 -0600
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Subject: Re: fdisk utility for cygwin
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Ashutosh Agrawal wrote:
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> Can anybody tell me where to find out the "fdisk" utility for cygwin to

I'm told that Linux fdisk and the e2fs tools all depend on being able to
do ioctls and raw reads and writes to the /dev/[hs]d[a-z] nodes, which
aren't emulated in Cygwin.  It'd be very tough, therefore, to port these
tools to Cygwin.
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