This was an issue that I had previously in September of last year and sent the
issue to this mailing list ("win-mounts no longer displays anything when doing
"cat /proc/partitions") but the issue stopped occurring before I could get
around to diagnosing it. This issue has now re-occurred and this time it seems
permanent. When I run:
$ cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name win-mounts
8 0 0 sda
8 16 0 sdb
8 32 0 sdc
8 48 0 sdd
8 64 0 sde
8 80 0 sdf
...I see nothing at all in the win-mounts column. This makes it impossible for
me to see which Windows drive letter maps to which /dev/sdX entry. On closer
inspection, this seems to be because I'm not actually seeing any partitions of
my drives, even though there are many - for example, I see /dev/sda but no
/dev/sda1 or /dev/sda2, and because it's the partitions that are mounted, it's
this that seems to result in me seeing nothing in the win-mounts column. I'm
running Cygwin on Windows 7 (yes I'm aware it's EOL).
For testing purposes I also ran the following command (for obvious reasons I
don't want to have run something like this to find my drive mappings):
$ for disk in /dev/sd*; do echo -n $disk$'\t'; cygpath -m $disk; done
/dev/sda //./PhysicalDrive0
/dev/sda1 //./D:
/dev/sdb //./PhysicalDrive1
/dev/sdc //./PhysicalDrive2
/dev/sdc1 //./Volume{88cc26b4-e0e5-11e9-9cc4-806e6f6e6963}
/dev/sdc2 //./C:
/dev/sdd //./PhysicalDrive3
/dev/sdd1 //./B:
/dev/sde //./PhysicalDrive4
/dev/sde1 //./HarddiskVolume5
/dev/sde2 //./E:
/dev/sdf //./PhysicalDrive5
/dev/sdf1 //./I:
​Thanks in advance for any help with this, it would be very much appreciated as
I rely on Cygwin a lot.
