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Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 18:53:28 +0500
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Subject: Re: Shadowcopy volume block devices
From: Micky <mickylmartin AT gmail DOT com>
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>On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>  If you knew that you could access
> HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy using the POSIX path
> why didn't you try to use the POSIX path as device name in a call to the
> POSIX tool dd, rather than translating it into a Win32 path?  It's clearly
> marked as block device in the directory listing:

Because if I do that, the dd goes into a loop dumping an endless amount of data.
When I tried c:\cygwin\dd.exe directly at the CMD with "\\.\" win32
path, I got correct size of dump so that's why I knew something is up
with the block devices presented inside Cygwin (at least for dd).

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