From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 130175 invoked by alias); 11 Nov 2015 16:34:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 130167 invoked by uid 89); 11 Nov 2015 16:34:07 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-4.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: calimero.vinschen.de Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:34:02 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 1A1D7A8062C; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 17:33:59 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:34:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Documentation problem with the UG - POSIX devices? Message-ID: <20151111163359.GA11582@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <6CF2FC1279D0844C9357664DC5A08BA21BBF85BD@msgb09.nih.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6CF2FC1279D0844C9357664DC5A08BA21BBF85BD@msgb09.nih.gov> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SW-Source: 2015-11/txt/msg00184.txt.bz2 --a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1243 On Nov 11 16:22, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-posixd= evices >=20 > In the paragraph starting "Block devices are accessible ..." >=20 > "... or the first partition on the third harddisk is \device\harddisk2\pa= rtition1." >=20 > Shouldn't partition1 be the second partition, not the first? No. partition0 is a symlink pointing to DR0, which in turn is the entire physical disk. As admin: $ ls -l /proc/sys/Device/Harddisk0 | grep DR0 brwxrwx--x 1 Administrators SYSTEM 0, 250 Nov 11 17:32 DR0 lr--r--r-- 1 Administrators SYSTEM 0 Nov 11 17:32 Partition0 -> /pro= c/sys/Device/Harddisk0/DR0 $ ls -l /proc/sys/GLOBAL\?\? | grep DR0 lr--r--r-- 1 Administrators SYSTEM 0 Nov 11 17:32 Disk{2b5b33fa-71= 85-944d-98ae-4ff14c0e5391} -> /proc/sys/Device/Harddisk0/DR0 lr--r--r-- 1 Administrators SYSTEM 0 Nov 11 17:32 PhysicalDrive0 -= > /proc/sys/Device/Harddisk0/DR0 So the real partitioning starts with partition1, since partition0 is a link to the physical disk as a whole. Corinna --=20 Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat --a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-length: 819 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJWQ233AAoJEPU2Bp2uRE+g2lwQAIXWm9Of8ttNFCny8ZPB5P6U 8qmRtSwsdLnLL64ivAljy+G1MXb+a23XsLihtqyqNVMVYrjl/UW6JeAYoXm9vXlg H/AWuVTgUagT7VW8/sCDlOf8LxUN0lD92FDXU09+ry+fSL255+hAPKYi+Fxu3tew dW8JdCWvItjklOB8FIk6/mdBXVmQNhg1SMNB1/1tX+znbSo3E2+YmXRb5FoFjfrb pFVuZOEjtz/2pvU3hjJgFFC01ytflbUpls1skoZiaBamddwnX3KQpgZ4ww+3MkjU yJoAqln++eAgd9smOe5Fn6sJee7uBLQHRZFdR4QCTbp1hukm6ha+geu1CqdUkPGK bZHJ+Mqo7i9v7c9WCIEuKV/1HC3WJMaUh5hoYgJmQKu6F7SCgPv3njVb1DNPiJ7H Ab/qCwkPZybrc6ZSy68VRUwKtjbIR8IHsqrO+ARkKhRJ41+DXivvzPxmMEZJntdD 3GmOf2yPCzIWJ963hXMxguUA2LVMrBhyEexF78u/SIDvL+lHqzQrJ7DJ2Lopb3X+ dgk48zTr+Zj6KmlrWDAxxlPXIz3/qUAkEMCIIZeoGYO02U0og5NOhUZiVjIld9ie PqHuZL/hEKTbkQH93TohqCL9XJeY+Z0emo9wDRtYqmOyyiX04NIzuQ6hmQZMcDTV av6/rS6QnBfX1XcYtM/b =Chtr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C--