Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.0.1.1.0.20040206180148.0391b018@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 18:02:36 -0500 To: freemyer-ml AT NorcrossGroup DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: accessing a raw partition In-Reply-To: <1076107971.24281.53.camel@david.internal.NorcrossGroup.com > References: <1076107971 DOT 24281 DOT 53 DOT camel AT david DOT internal DOT NorcrossGroup DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 05:52 PM 2/6/2004, Greg Freemyer you wrote: >I have used cygwin and dd to access a raw physical drive before. > >$ mount -f -b //./physicaldrive2 /dev/tmp_name > >$ dd if=/dev/tmp_name .... > > > >Is there a way to access a raw partition? You don't need to do any mounting. See the User's Guide: -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/