From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Relating device names in /dev/ to drive letters in Windows.
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 10:26:02 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5e6fd378-7800-4422-5f63-5d6dc0796029@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM0PR05MB4898BE767E2785150F88507BE7760@AM0PR05MB4898.eurprd05.prod.outlook.com>
On 2020-07-23 03:36, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin wrote:
> I have noticed that after plugging in a USB drive, device files appear
> in /dev that correlate to the partitions on the drive.
>
> This is great because it means things like ddrescue can work in Cygwin,
> but I'm not yet sure how to relate these to the drives Windows sees.
> None of the standard Linux tools I use to gather system information
> (lsblk, blkid, lshw) seem to be available on Cygwin. I'm guessing this
> is because they won't work because there's no kernel or low level
> hardware access or something like that. Does anyone know how to do this?
$ cygcheck -p blkid
Found 17 matches for blkid
.htaccess -
libblkid-devel-2.32.1-1 - libblkid-devel: Block device ID library (development)
libblkid-devel-2.33.1-1 - libblkid-devel: Block device ID library (development)
libblkid-devel-2.33.1-2 - libblkid-devel: Block device ID library (development)
.htaccess -
libblkid1-2.32.1-1 - libblkid1: Block device ID library (runtime)
libblkid1-2.33.1-1 - libblkid1: Block device ID library (runtime)
libblkid1-2.33.1-2 - libblkid1: Block device ID library (runtime)
util-linux-debuginfo-2.32.1-1 - util-linux-debuginfo: Debug info for util-linux
util-linux-debuginfo-2.33.1-1 - util-linux-debuginfo: Debug info for util-linux
util-linux-debuginfo-2.33.1-2 - util-linux-debuginfo: Debug info for util-linux
util-linux-2.32.1-1-src - util-linux-src: Collection of basic system utilities
(source)
util-linux-2.33.1-1-src - util-linux-src: Collection of basic system utilities
(source)
util-linux-2.33.1-2-src - util-linux-src: Collection of basic system utilities
(source)
util-linux-2.32.1-1 - util-linux: Collection of basic system utilities
util-linux-2.33.1-1 - util-linux: Collection of basic system utilities
util-linux-2.33.1-2 - util-linux: Collection of basic system utilities
$ which blkid
/sbin/blkid
$ cygcheck -f /sbin/blkid
util-linux-2.33.1-2
Everyone has util-linux installed as it is in the Base category.
Someone has to provide the system interfaces in a POSIX compliant manner or at
least similar to Linux and BSD to port the libraries.
You can find most info under /proc/registry/ (even
/proc/registry/HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA/{@,Costly,Global}/ - explore with ls and
regtool) and there are Windows dynamic system objects under /proc/sys/ e.g.
/proc/sys/ Device/ and /proc/sys/DosDevices/Global/ (explore with ls and od/xxd).
Note: You need an elevated admin shell to use most device tools and see a lot of
/proc/sys/.
Hack at it, sir!
--
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-24 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-23 9:36 Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
2020-07-23 11:29 ` Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
2020-07-24 8:45 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-07-24 16:26 ` Brian Inglis [this message]
2020-07-27 11:24 Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
2020-07-27 12:44 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-07-27 13:10 ` Brian Inglis
[not found] <mailman.96674.1595867913.8982.cygwin@cygwin.com>
2020-07-28 21:36 ` Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
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