Re: associating device names with cygdrive directories
On Aug 25 16:32, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 02:47:21PM -0500, Charles D. Russell wrote:
On Linux, the mount command reveals the association between filesystem
names and /dev/ names, but Cygwin mount doesn't tell.
Is this what you want? (The multiple spaces are really tabs.)
$ for F in /dev/s* ; do echo $F$(cygpath -w $F) ; done
I have another one:
$ for F in /dev/s* ; do echo $F$(cygpath -w $F) ; done
/dev/sda\\.\PhysicalDrive0
/dev/sda1
\\.\STORAGE#Volume#{781f8bd6-7d0d-11de-8012-806e6f6e6963}#0010#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}
/dev/sda2\\.\Volume{781f8bda-7d0d-11de-8012-806e6f6e6963}
/dev/sda3\\.\D:
but there are two problems.
Up to the current Cygwin 1.7.6 the info from /proc/partitions is
incomplete for non-privileged users. I just checked in a patch to
Cygwin which allows the full partition info also for non-priv'ed users.
Apart from that, the output of cygpath -w for devices isn't overly
helpful yet. I look into improving that a bit.
Corinna
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Re: associating device names with cygdrive directories
On 2010-08-26 07:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
I have another one:
$ for F in /dev/s* ; do echo $F$(cygpath -w $F) ; done
/dev/sda\\.\PhysicalDrive0
/dev/sda1
\\.\STORAGE#Volume#{781f8bd6-7d0d-11de-8012-806e6f6e6963}#0010#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}
/dev/sda2\\.\Volume{781f8bda-7d0d-11de-8012-806e6f6e6963}
/dev/sda3\\.\D:
but there are two problems.
Up to the current Cygwin 1.7.6 the info from /proc/partitions is
incomplete for non-privileged users. I just checked in a patch to
Cygwin which allows the full partition info also for non-priv'ed users.
Apart from that, the output of cygpath -w for devices isn't overly
helpful yet. I look into improving that a bit.
Corinna
When I run echo /dev/s*, I only get /dev/shm /dev/stderr /dev/stdin
/dev/stdout, how/why is yours showing the drive devices?
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Re: associating device names with cygdrive directories
On Aug 26 13:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Aug 25 16:32, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 02:47:21PM -0500, Charles D. Russell wrote:
On Linux, the mount command reveals the association between filesystem
names and /dev/ names, but Cygwin mount doesn't tell.
Is this what you want? (The multiple spaces are really tabs.)
$ for F in /dev/s* ; do echo $F$(cygpath -w $F) ; done
I have another one:
$ for F in /dev/s* ; do echo $F$(cygpath -w $F) ; done
/dev/sda\\.\PhysicalDrive0
/dev/sda1
\\.\STORAGE#Volume#{781f8bd6-7d0d-11de-8012-806e6f6e6963}#0010#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}
/dev/sda2\\.\Volume{781f8bda-7d0d-11de-8012-806e6f6e6963}
/dev/sda3\\.\D:
but there are two problems.
Up to the current Cygwin 1.7.6 the info from /proc/partitions is
incomplete for non-privileged users. I just checked in a patch to
Cygwin which allows the full partition info also for non-priv'ed users.
Apart from that, the output of cygpath -w for devices isn't overly
helpful yet. I look into improving that a bit.
I applied a patch to cygpath which now prefers the \\.\X: DOS device
name over any other device name for harddisks. In my case, the output
is now:
$ for F in $(gawk '{if (FNR 2) print /dev/ $4;}' /proc/partitions) ; do
echo $F$(./cygpath -w $F) ; done
/dev/sda\\.\PhysicalDrive0
/dev/sda1 \\.\Volume{781f8bd9-7d0d-11de-8012-806e6f6e6963}
/dev/sda2 \\.\C:
/dev/sda3 \\.\D:
/dev/sda1 is not available under a drive letter, so that's fine.
HTH,
Corinna
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Re: associating device names with cygdrive directories
On Aug 26 08:11, Rolf Campbell wrote:
On 2010-08-26 07:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
I have another one:
$ for F in /dev/s* ; do echo $F$(cygpath -w $F) ; done
/dev/sda\\.\PhysicalDrive0
/dev/sda1
\\.\STORAGE#Volume#{781f8bd6-7d0d-11de-8012-806e6f6e6963}#0010#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}
/dev/sda2\\.\Volume{781f8bda-7d0d-11de-8012-806e6f6e6963}
/dev/sda3\\.\D:
but there are two problems.
Up to the current Cygwin 1.7.6 the info from /proc/partitions is
incomplete for non-privileged users. I just checked in a patch to
Cygwin which allows the full partition info also for non-priv'ed users.
Apart from that, the output of cygpath -w for devices isn't overly
helpful yet. I look into improving that a bit.
Corinna
When I run echo /dev/s*, I only get /dev/shm /dev/stderr
/dev/stdin /dev/stdout, how/why is yours showing the drive devices?
I got tangled up in copy/paste. Actually the statement should have been:
for F in $(gawk '{if (FNR 2) print /dev/ $4;}' /proc/partitions);
do
echo $F$(./cygpath -w $F);
done
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Re: associating device names with cygdrive directories
On 8/25/2010 4:32 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
$ for F in /dev/s* ; do echo $F$(cygpath -w $F) ; done
/dev/scd0 \\.\D:
/dev/scd1 \Device\CdRom1
/dev/scd2 \Device\CdRom2
/dev/sda\\.\PhysicalDrive0
/dev/sda1 \\.\Volume{39f65722-0106-11df-b1c0-806d6172696f}
/dev/sda2 \Device\Harddisk0\Partition2
/dev/sdb\Device\Harddisk1\Partition0
/dev/sdb1 \Device\Harddisk1\Partition1
/dev/sdb2 \Device\Harddisk1\Partition2
/dev/sdc\Device\Harddisk2\Partition0
/dev/sdc1 \Device\Harddisk2\Partition1
/dev/sdc2 \Device\Harddisk2\Partition2
/dev/shmC:\cygwin\dev\shm
/dev/sr0\\.\D:
/dev/sr1\Device\CdRom1
/dev/sr2\Device\CdRom2
/dev/st0\Device\Tape0
/dev/st1\Device\Tape1
/dev/st2\Device\Tape2
/dev/stderr \dev\tty
/dev/stdin \dev\tty
/dev/stdout /proc/2476/fd/pipe:[504]
I'm running Cygwin 1.7.6-1, and when I use your command ('for F in
...'), above, I
don't get all the devices in your list (for those that I have). Instead
I get:
/dev/shmC:\_0\dev\shm
/dev/stderr \devty0
/dev/stdin \devty0
/dev/stdout /proc/4876/fd/pipe:[800]
What's missing? At least:
* ty1
* 2 HD partitions
* 1 1.5 TB USB drive
* 1 TB RAID 0
* 2 CD/DVD drives (one USB, one internal)
* CF drive
* USB 16 GB flash drive
This is not earth shattering since everything (AFAIK) works (with either
Windoze
or Cygwin), but what's the deal, do you think?
Thx,
Lee
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Re: associating device names with cygdrive directories
On Aug 26 10:44, Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
On 8/25/2010 4:32 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
$ for F in /dev/s* ; do echo $F$(cygpath -w $F) ; done
/dev/scd0 \\.\D:
/dev/scd1 \Device\CdRom1
/dev/scd2 \Device\CdRom2
/dev/sda\\.\PhysicalDrive0
/dev/sda1 \\.\Volume{39f65722-0106-11df-b1c0-806d6172696f}
/dev/sda2 \Device\Harddisk0\Partition2
/dev/sdb\Device\Harddisk1\Partition0
/dev/sdb1 \Device\Harddisk1\Partition1
/dev/sdb2 \Device\Harddisk1\Partition2
/dev/sdc\Device\Harddisk2\Partition0
/dev/sdc1 \Device\Harddisk2\Partition1
/dev/sdc2 \Device\Harddisk2\Partition2
/dev/shmC:\cygwin\dev\shm
/dev/sr0\\.\D:
/dev/sr1\Device\CdRom1
/dev/sr2\Device\CdRom2
/dev/st0\Device\Tape0
/dev/st1\Device\Tape1
/dev/st2\Device\Tape2
/dev/stderr \dev\tty
/dev/stdin \dev\tty
/dev/stdout /proc/2476/fd/pipe:[504]
I'm running Cygwin 1.7.6-1, and when I use your command ('for F in
...'), above,
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-08/msg00837.html
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Re: associating device names with cygdrive directories
Is there an easy way to find the association of a given /dev/sd? with
the corresponding /cygdrive/?. Is there a good way to verify the
association before writing to the device with dd?
Larry Hall wrote:
you can certainly use the information from Disk Management to figure out
the mapping.
essentially, Disk 0 = /dev/sda, etc.
Thanks. That is the mapping I was looking for.
Jeremy Bopp wrote:
How would you handle the case where you have more than a single mount
which looks like that? e.g.)
/dev/sda1 on /live/image1 type vfat
(rw,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,allow_utime=17,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8)
/dev/sdb1 on /live/image2 type vfat
(rw,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,allow_utime=17,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8)
***
If I know that /dev/sda1 maps to /live/image1, then I can use df and ls
on /live/image1
to identify the device - easier than using dd |strings on /dev/sda1.
I'm concerned
with distinguishing among USB storage devices.
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
$ for F in $(gawk '{if (FNR 2) print /dev/ $4;}'
/proc/partitions) ; do echo $F$(./cygpath -w $F) ; done
/dev/sda\\.\PhysicalDrive0
/dev/sda1 \\.\Volume{781f8bd9-7d0d-11de-8012-806e6f6e6963}
/dev/sda2 \\.\C:
/dev/sda3 \\.\D:
/dev/sda1 is not available under a drive letter, so that's fine.
*
Nice, but evidently requires your patches, not working on my installation.
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retries simply won't work.
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Thanks everyone. I was successful in creating a bootable USB flash
drive using Cygwin to dd from debian-live.img.
It was so slow, though, that I will forget about using Cygwin to clone a
hard drive.
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Re: associating device names with cygdrive directories
On 8/25/2010 2:49 PM, Charles D. Russell wrote: What is the best way to find or predict the association of a given /dev/sd? with the corresponding /cygdrive/?. Is there a good way to verify the assignment before writing to the device with dd? I think this link should help a little: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-posixdevices The POSIX device names are generated from the Windows information/layout of these devices. So your best bet is to look to Windows to get the device number - drive letter association and then fill in the rest from there. There is no one-stop shopping utility that I know of that will do all that for you. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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
Re: associating device names with cygdrive directories
On 8/25/2010 2:49 PM, Charles D. Russell wrote: What is the best way to find or predict the association of a given /dev/sd? with the corresponding /cygdrive/?. Is there a good way to verify the assignment before writing to the device with dd? I think this link should help a little: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-posixdevices The POSIX device names are generated from the Windows information/layout of these devices. So your best bet is to look to Windows to get the device number - drive letter association and then fill in the rest from there. I had read that reference, but don't see how it helps to find whether a given USB storage device is sda, sdb, or whatever. I found that a flash drive was /dev/sdc by unplugging all other USB devices and trial-and-error with dd if=/dev/sdc |od|less, but there must be a better way. I want to use multiple USB devices at the same time, and they don't all have stuff on them that I can recognize in binary. On Linux, the mount command reveals the association between filesystem names and /dev/ names, but Cygwin mount doesn't tell. The cited reference mentions NT internal device names, but I don't know what those are or how to find them. Is there some connection with the device numbers revealed by the Control Panel under Windows Computer Management/Storage/Disk Management? -- 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
Re: associating device names with cygdrive directories
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 02:47:21PM -0500, Charles D. Russell wrote: On Linux, the mount command reveals the association between filesystem names and /dev/ names, but Cygwin mount doesn't tell. Sorry that's not how the mount command works on Linux. It's not always easy to tell the device associated on linux either. Sometimes you need to look at dmesg output. Unfortunately cygwin has nothing similar. cgf -- 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
Re: associating device names with cygdrive directories
On 8/25/2010 3:03 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 02:47:21PM -0500, Charles D. Russell wrote: On Linux, the mount command reveals the association between filesystem names and /dev/ names, but Cygwin mount doesn't tell. Sorry that's not how the mount command works on Linux. It's not always easy to tell the device associated on linux either. Sometimes you need to look at dmesg output. Unfortunately cygwin has nothing similar. The wodim command from the cdrtools package includes logic (-scanbus option) which is able to identify SCSI devices under Cygwin. It doesn't map them to the /dev namespace, but it shows that something like you need may be possible. Wodim is also able to take a drive letter and directly use that when writing an ISO file to the drive. Maybe you could start there and craft a tool to do what you need. -Jeremy -- 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
RE: associating device names with cygdrive directories
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 02:47:21PM -0500, Charles D. Russell wrote:
On Linux, the mount command reveals the association between filesystem
names and /dev/ names, but Cygwin mount doesn't tell.
Is this what you want? (The multiple spaces are really tabs.)
$ for F in /dev/s* ; do echo $F$(cygpath -w $F) ; done
/dev/scd0 \\.\D:
/dev/scd1 \Device\CdRom1
/dev/scd2 \Device\CdRom2
/dev/sda\\.\PhysicalDrive0
/dev/sda1 \\.\Volume{39f65722-0106-11df-b1c0-806d6172696f}
/dev/sda2 \Device\Harddisk0\Partition2
/dev/sdb\Device\Harddisk1\Partition0
/dev/sdb1 \Device\Harddisk1\Partition1
/dev/sdb2 \Device\Harddisk1\Partition2
/dev/sdc\Device\Harddisk2\Partition0
/dev/sdc1 \Device\Harddisk2\Partition1
/dev/sdc2 \Device\Harddisk2\Partition2
/dev/shmC:\cygwin\dev\shm
/dev/sr0\\.\D:
/dev/sr1\Device\CdRom1
/dev/sr2\Device\CdRom2
/dev/st0\Device\Tape0
/dev/st1\Device\Tape1
/dev/st2\Device\Tape2
/dev/stderr \dev\tty
/dev/stdin \dev\tty
/dev/stdout /proc/2476/fd/pipe:[504]
- Barry
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Re: associating device names with cygdrive directories
On 8/25/2010 4:11 PM, Jeremy Bopp wrote: On 8/25/2010 3:03 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 02:47:21PM -0500, Charles D. Russell wrote: On Linux, the mount command reveals the association between filesystem names and /dev/ names, but Cygwin mount doesn't tell. Sorry that's not how the mount command works on Linux. It's not always easy to tell the device associated on linux either. Sometimes you need to look at dmesg output. Unfortunately cygwin has nothing similar. The wodim command from the cdrtools package includes logic (-scanbus option) which is able to identify SCSI devices under Cygwin. It doesn't map them to the /dev namespace, but it shows that something like you need may be possible. Wodim is also able to take a drive letter and directly use that when writing an ISO file to the drive. Maybe you could start there and craft a tool to do what you need. That might be the easiest way to creating a tool, since you'd have existing logic to leverage. But to answer your original question, you can certainly use the information from Disk Management to figure out the mapping. http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/cygwin/devices.cc?rev=1.31content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markupcvsroot=src should help in that regard. But essentially, Disk 0 = /dev/sda, etc. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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
Re: associating device names with cygdrive directories
Maybe it won't always work, but with debian mount I get the following line of output, which tells me what I want to know (and more): /dev/sda1 on /live/image type vfat (rw,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,allow_utime=17,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8) I infer from the replies that in Cygwin there is no easier way to find my way around in /dev than the way I was doing it, though I realize strings is a better choice than od. With dd if=/dev/sda|strings|less I discovered that /dev/sda is actually my hard drive. -- 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
Re: associating device names with cygdrive directories
On 8/25/2010 3:32 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 02:47:21PM -0500, Charles D. Russell wrote: On Linux, the mount command reveals the association between filesystem names and /dev/ names, but Cygwin mount doesn't tell. Is this what you want? (The multiple spaces are really tabs.) $ for F in /dev/s* ; do echo $F$(cygpath -w $F) ; done /dev/scd0 \\.\D: /dev/scd1 \Device\CdRom1 /dev/scd2 \Device\CdRom2 snip That's a pretty clever solution. Too bad there is no way to use cygpath to go the other direction. Ideally, we could do something like: $ cygpath -t device D: /dev/scd0 Of course it's hard to justify adding such functionality without a good use case. -Jeremy -- 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
Re: associating device names with cygdrive directories
On 8/25/2010 3:42 PM, Charles D. Russell wrote: Maybe it won't always work, but with debian mount I get the following line of output, which tells me what I want to know (and more): /dev/sda1 on /live/image type vfat (rw,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,allow_utime=17,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8) I infer from the replies that in Cygwin there is no easier way to find my way around in /dev than the way I was doing it, though I realize strings is a better choice than od. With dd if=/dev/sda|strings|less I discovered that /dev/sda is actually my hard drive. How would you handle the case where you have more than a single mount which looks like that? e.g.) /dev/sda1 on /live/image1 type vfat (rw,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,allow_utime=17,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8) /dev/sdb1 on /live/image2 type vfat (rw,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,allow_utime=17,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8) I think part of what Chris is saying is that you typically don't know for sure how Linux will associate a particular hardware device with a particular node in the device filesystem. Looking at the mount table is only useful in extremely limited circumstances, such as when you only have a single device that always mounts to a well-known mount point. Since Windows handles the automounting for Cygwin, you have to depend on Windows to always assign the same drive letter to the device, thus creating your well-known mount point (/cygdrive/d, for example). However, I don't believe there is any way to force that under Windows, so if some other device loads first and takes the drive letter you usually get, your second device will automatically get a different drive letter. This is outside of Cygwin's control in any case. If you want to avoid the hacks you describe above, you'll need to talk to Windows in order to locate some sort of unique identifier for your device and use that to ultimately identify the POSIX device path, perhaps via the drive letter and Barry's trick. Under Linux you would essentially use sysfs to do a similar task. Anything less, especially since you're talking about using dd to write to the device, will likely lead to unhappiness. -Jeremy -- 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
Re: associating device names with cygdrive directories
Greetings, Charles D. Russell! Maybe it won't always work, but with debian mount I get the following line of output, which tells me what I want to know (and more): /dev/sda1 on /live/image type vfat (rw,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,allow_utime=17,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8) I infer from the replies that in Cygwin there is no easier way to find my way around in /dev than the way I was doing it, though I realize strings is a better choice than od. With dd if=/dev/sda|strings|less I discovered that /dev/sda is actually my hard drive. It's a very rough guess, and only work in limited amount of instances. You still have to check if the target device you got from mount table is actually a block device. And, please, use reply option when replying to list, instead of writing new message. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 26.08.2010, 6:31 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
Re: associating device names with cygdrive directories
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 04:32:49PM -0500, Jeremy Bopp wrote: On 8/25/2010 3:42 PM, Charles D. Russell wrote: Maybe it won't always work, but with debian mount I get the following line of output, which tells me what I want to know (and more): /dev/sda1 on /live/image type vfat (rw,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,allow_utime=17,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8) I infer from the replies that in Cygwin there is no easier way to find my way around in /dev than the way I was doing it, though I realize strings is a better choice than od. With dd if=/dev/sda|strings|less I discovered that /dev/sda is actually my hard drive. How would you handle the case where you have more than a single mount which looks like that? e.g.) /dev/sda1 on /live/image1 type vfat (rw,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,allow_utime=17,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8) /dev/sdb1 on /live/image2 type vfat (rw,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,allow_utime=17,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8) I think part of what Chris is saying is that you typically don't know for sure how Linux will associate a particular hardware device with a particular node in the device filesystem. No, actually what I was saying is that the mount command doesn't know which device is associated with a CD or disk. Something had to *generate* a command like: mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /live/image That information usually comes from /etc/fstab and /etc/fstab would probably be generated by something which scanned the available devices to produce the file. Sure, when you type mount you will see mounted directories but cygdrive directories aren't really mounted in the strictest sense. The mount table is one place where Cygwin and Linux are quite different. cgf -- 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
