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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 15:52:12 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Rolf Campbell <thats DOT unpossible AT gmail DOT com>
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On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Rolf Campbell wrote:

> 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.

True.

> I recall that there is a way to access the disks as real devices under
> NT/2000/XP using some strange notation.

What's wrong with using /dev/sda*?

> It might make sense to mount those under /dev/,

They already are: "ls /dev/sda", "ls /dev/sda1"...

> but to mount your C-drive there would not be consistant with what /dev/
> was designed for.

True.
	Igor
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