Re: ntfsclone for cygwin 1.7 (issues pointing to shadow copies)

2009-07-28 Thread Rob Bosch
> /proc/partitions is populated, but only with actual disks. The device > mapping for disks is a mapping from the internal NT namespace objects > \Device\HarddiskX\PartitionY to the POSIX-like /dev/sdXY. Since shadow copies > of a disk don't match this mapping, you're out of luck. Maybe we can ad

Re: ntfsclone for cygwin 1.7 (issues pointing to shadow copies)

2009-07-28 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 07/28/2009 05:27 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 27 18:31, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 07/27/2009 05:48 PM, Rob Bosch wrote: The issue appears to be with ntfsclone in that it must point to something in /proc/partitions. It will not work with any /cygdrive/X (used dosdev.c from Corinna

Re: ntfsclone for cygwin 1.7 (issues pointing to shadow copies)

2009-07-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 27 18:31, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 07/27/2009 05:48 PM, Rob Bosch wrote: >> The issue appears to be with ntfsclone in that it must point to >> something in /proc/partitions. It will not work with any /cygdrive/X (used >> dosdev.c from Corinna and typical vshadow to expose as a drive

Re: ntfsclone for cygwin 1.7 (issues pointing to shadow copies)

2009-07-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 07/27/2009 05:48 PM, Rob Bosch wrote: The issue appears to be with ntfsclone in that it must point to something in /proc/partitions. It will not work with any /cygdrive/X (used dosdev.c from Corinna and typical vshadow to expose as a drive with no luck). I found this out by commenting out th

RE: ntfsclone for cygwin 1.7 (issues pointing to shadow copies)

2009-07-27 Thread Rob Bosch
The issue appears to be with ntfsclone in that it must point to something in /proc/partitions. It will not work with any /cygdrive/X (used dosdev.c from Corinna and typical vshadow to expose as a drive with no luck). I found this out by commenting out the read-only check and rebuilding ntfsclo

RE: ntfsclone for cygwin 1.7 (issues pointing to shadow copies)

2009-07-27 Thread Rob Bosch
I was able to get ntfsprogs to compile under cygwin 1.7 after some troubleshooting. I tried to get ntfsclone to point to the //?/GLOBALROOT for a shadow copy. I know dd can do this. ntfsclone doesn't appear to be aware of these devices and there are no /dev/sd?? associated with them either.

ntfsclone for cygwin 1.7

2009-07-22 Thread Rob Bosch
Does anyone know of an ntfsclone package that works under 1.7? I tried compiling 2.0 from sourceforge. I didn't get any errors from ./configure, make, or make install but the executable doesn't return anything when I run it. ntfsclone --help doesn't return anything either. I've been using dd wi