> > Can you answer the following question: > > > > Given a volume label, how does one figure out where the > corresponding > > volume has been mounted into the Cygwin namespace? > > We're not mounting volumes, we're mounting Win32 paths. > There is no direct correspondence between volumes and Cygwin > mount points.
When a person inserts removable media (USB memory stick, optical disk, ...), Windows assigns a more-or-less random drive letter. Cygwin automatically makes this drive letter available under /cygdrive/ (or whatever the user has renamed /cygdrive to). Given a (unique) volume label or disk UUID, blk_id(8) on both Linux and Cygwin tells you the disk and partition in /dev/sdXY format. In Linux, you can look up the mount point for device /dev/sdXY in /proc/mounts or in the output of mount(8). Thus, given a volume label, you can figure out where to access the files on the volume. How do you do that in Cygwin? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
