From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5801 invoked by alias); 31 Jul 2006 04:11:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 5789 invoked by uid 22791); 31 Jul 2006 04:11:25 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from Unknown (HELO pwrimns1) (203.14.32.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 04:11:24 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([192.168.11.169]) by pwrimns1 with InterScan Messaging Security Suite; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:10:35 +1000 Message-ID: <44CD82E3.4070401@hotmail.com.INVALID> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 04:11:00 -0000 From: Shaddy Baddah Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Subject: Not directly Cygwin: Windows special filenames Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-imss-version: 2.041 X-imss-result: Passed X-imss-scores: Clean:3.80703 C:2 M:3 S:5 R:5 X-imss-settings: Baseline:1 C:1 M:1 S:1 R:1 (0.0000 0.0000) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List X-SW-Source: 2006-q3/txt/msg00068.txt.bz2 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