On Windows you can create symbolic links which point to volume UUIDs as
a way of mounting and unmounting them without having to use the
administrative disk management tools.
For example, in cmd:
mountvol
...
\\?\Volume{079b79c9-0000-0000-0000-100000000000}\
C:\
...
mklink /d test \\?\Volume{079b79c9-0000-0000-0000-100000000000}\
...
dir test
I call mounvol to get a list of volumes and create a symbolic link
'test' which points to the C:\ UUID. When I then 'dir test' it will list
all files on that volume.
If I try to access it through Cygwin Bash I get the following error:
$ dir test/
dir: cannot access 'test/': No such file or directory
This makes it difficult to work with unmounted volumes as it's not
always possible to access the administrative disk management snap-in and
the mountvol/mklink has always been my go-to for this type of
functionality. It would be great if Cygwin would support it.
Matt D.
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