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 Message-ID: <42B27E6D.53211BED@dessent.net> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 00:40:29 -0700 From: Brian Dessent MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: POSIX devices References: <42B2687C DOT 4010601 AT vecernik DOT at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Report: -5.8/5.0 ---- Start SpamAssassin results * -3.3 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts * -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] * 0.1 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list ---- End SpamAssassin results X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Oliver Vecernik wrote: > C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type > system (binmo > de) This, I believe, is an ancient artifact of an old way that the x11 packages used to work, and you can remove this mount. > C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type user (binmode) > C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) > C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type user (binmode) > C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode) > C:\cygwin on / type user (binmode) > C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode) You might want to remove these duplicate mounts (umount -U to remove the user mounts) just to avoid future confusion. > c: on /c type system (binmode) > n: on /n type system (binmode) > x: on /x type system (binmode) > z: on /z type system (binmode) > e: on /cygdrive/e type user (binmode,noumount) > f: on /cygdrive/f type user (binmode,noumount) Again, here it might be less confusing to remove the explicit mounts on /c /n /x /z and just change the cygdrive prefix to / (mount -c /) such that any and all drives show up as letters in the root, if that's what you want. And since you seem to have the cygdrive set in user mode it might be less confusing to remove the user-cygdrive mount and make it a system-cygdrive to reduce potential future confusion. > But how do I know the order of device names? It all depends when the > devices are plugged on to the system. Is there a command to find out? > > dd if=/dev/sd? of=/tmp/foo bs=512 count=1 The order depends on whatever windows orders the drives. I think that you can view this by running the "Logical Disk Manager" mmc snap-in and looking at the disk numbering there. The "Disk 0" "Disk 1" etc labels there should correspond 1:1 with /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc. (Though I don't have any removable media with wich I can verify this.) Brian -- 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/