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From: Shaddy Baddah <Shaddy_Baddah@hotmail.com.INVALID>
To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
Subject: Not directly Cygwin: Windows special filenames
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 04:11:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44CD82E3.4070401@hotmail.com.INVALID> (raw)

Hi,

I am familiar with the DOS names like \\.\c: to get at a raw partition
from Windows command shell, that would be the equivalent of something
like /dev/sda1 in Cygwin.

Does anyone know of an equivalent for accessing the whole disk, i.e. the
equivalent of:

[snip]
/dev/sda	\device\harddisk0\partition0	(whole disk)
[/snip]

from http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html. I
often look for clues on this page, and I get that there might be a
syntax that includes \device\harddisk0\partition0 that does the job.

Indeed cygpath -m /dev/sda or /dev/sda1 return the equivalents from this
page. Is this misleading, seeing as they are not really valid DOS names?

Thanks in advance,
Shaddy




             reply	other threads:[~2006-07-31  4:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-31  4:11 Shaddy Baddah [this message]
2006-07-31  4:33 ` Shaddy Baddah
2006-07-31 10:26   ` Corinna Vinschen
2006-08-01  9:57     ` Shaddy Baddah
2006-07-31 13:37   ` Igor Peshansky

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