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From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Hashim Aziz <hashaziz@hotmail.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cat /proc/partitions shows only devices, not partitions
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2020 19:35:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <465712884.20200304220149@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DB7PR01MB51934E03BFDFE94142F1966FD5E60@DB7PR01MB5193.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com>

Greetings, Hashim Aziz!

> This was an issue that I had previously in September of last year and sent
> the issue to this mailing list ("win-mounts no longer displays anything when
> doing "cat /proc/partitions") but the issue stopped occurring before I could
> get around to diagnosing it. This issue has now re-occurred and this time it seems permanent. When I run:

> $ cat /proc/partitions
> major minor  #blocks  name   win-mounts

>     8     0         0 sda
>     8    16         0 sdb
>     8    32         0 sdc
>     8    48         0 sdd
>     8    64         0 sde
>     8    80         0 sdf

$ cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name   win-mounts

    8     0  78150744 sda
    8     1    102400 sda1
    8     2    131072 sda2
    8     3  77916160 sda3   C:\ C:\dev\sda1\
    8    16 488386584 sdb
    8    17 486615520 sdb1
    8    32 488386584 sdc
    8    33 488384512 sdc1
    8    48 312571224 sdd
    8    49 312568641 sdd1
    8    64         0 sde
    8    80         0 sdf
    8    96         0 sdg
    8   112         0 sdh

> ...I see nothing at all in the win-mounts column. This makes it impossible
> for me to see which Windows drive letter maps to which /dev/sdX entry.

This seems like a permissions issue.

> win-mounts column. I'm running Cygwin on Windows 7 (yes I'm aware it's EOL).

Same here. Win 7 Pro SP1.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Wednesday, March 4, 2020 22:00:31

Sorry for my terrible english...


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-03-04 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-01 21:16 Hashim Aziz
2020-03-02 16:56 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-03-04 19:35 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2020-03-03  0:55 Hashim Aziz
2020-03-03 10:44 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-03-03  1:01 Hashim Aziz
2020-03-03 17:21 Hashim Aziz
2020-03-03 18:17 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-03-07 20:36 ` Hashim Aziz
2020-03-09  3:11   ` Andrey Repin
2020-03-09 15:47 Hashim Aziz
2020-03-09 15:59 ` Bill Stewart

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