On Nov 11 16:22, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-posixdevices
>
> In the paragraph starting "Block devices are accessible ..."
>
> "... or the first partition on the third harddisk is
> \device\harddisk2\partition1."
>
> 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 ->
/proc/sys/Device/Harddisk0/DR0
$ ls -l /proc/sys/GLOBAL\?\? | grep DR0
lr--r--r-- 1 Administrators SYSTEM0 Nov 11 17:32
Disk{2b5b33fa-7185-944d-98ae-4ff14c0e5391} -> /proc/sys/Device/Harddisk0/DR0
lr--r--r-- 1 Administrators SYSTEM0 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
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