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On 12/22/2012 03:25 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
>> >  No reason, really, other than the fact that Windoze forces us to access physical storage devices via the silly drive letters .
> What? Where did you get this impression?
> This is not true for 18 years at least.
>

That is interesting.
How do I use cygwin to copy files off any eSata disk without using a drive letter?

Probably, I could let cygwin mount the fs somehow, using the volume name.
But I do not know the volume name beforehand, because they are not my disks.

- bartels

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