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From: Rolf Campbell <thats DOT unpossible AT gmail DOT com>
Subject: Re: ls /dev/*
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 15:02:37 -0500
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Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>> While, you are welcome to redefine /cygdrive any way you want, the 
>> unix paradigm does not put filesystems under /dev. That is for devices.
> To me, a disk drive IS a device. YMMV! :-)
A disk drive is a device, but /cygdrive/c is not a disk-drive.  It's a 
file-system contained in a partition contained on a disk-drive 
(usually).  In unix-like systems, the disk-drive and the partition are 
available as devices along with the file-system.  The disk-drive in 
/dev/ is a flat-device.  All bytes available sequentially as a single image.

I recall that there is a way to access the disks as real devices under 
NT/2000/XP using some strange notation.  It might make sense to mount 
those under /dev/, but to mount your C-drive there would not be 
consistant with what /dev/ was designed for.

-Rolf


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