>On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > If you knew that you could access > HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy using the POSIX path > why didn't you try to use the POSIX path as device name in a call to the > POSIX tool dd, rather than translating it into a Win32 path? It's clearly > marked as block device in the directory listing:
Because if I do that, the dd goes into a loop dumping an endless amount of data. When I tried c:\cygwin\dd.exe directly at the CMD with "\\.\" win32 path, I got correct size of dump so that's why I knew something is up with the block devices presented inside Cygwin (at least for dd). -- 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