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Subject: Re: associating device names with cygdrive directories
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On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 02:47:21PM -0500, Charles D. Russell wrote:
>On Linux, the mount command reveals the association between filesystem
>names and /dev/ names, but Cygwin mount doesn't tell.

Sorry that's not how the mount command works on Linux.  It's not always
easy to tell the device associated on linux either.  Sometimes you need
to look at dmesg output.  Unfortunately cygwin has nothing similar.

cgf

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