I see. Do you know how I would go about resolving this, as I am using an Administrator account and have never run into any other issues reading, writing or otherwise making changes to those drives.
Hashim ________________________________ From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com on behalf of Corinna Vinschen Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2020 4:46 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cat /proc/partitions shows only devices, not partitions On Mar 3 16:32, Hashim Aziz wrote: > Yes, this was what I expected you meant by elevated shell. I tried that > earlier and got no luck (though I tried the link to the Cygwin terminal in my > start menu > not a desktop shortcut), and I just tried again after attempting several > permissions fixes but still no luck. > > The permissions fixed I tried were: > > - Right-clicking and deselecting Read-Only on the cygwin64 folder > - Resetting permissions with the CMD command: icacls c:\cygwin64 /reset /t /l > /c > - Taking control of the Cygwin folder with the following command (itself run > from an elevated window): > [...] When I was talking about permissions, I was talking about permissions on the native Windows devices, not any permissions on Cygwin files. The strace output shows that you don't have permissions to call DeviceIoControl(IOCTL_DISK_GET_PARTITION_INFO) or DeviceIoControl(IOCTL_DISK_GET_PARTITION_INFO_EX) on the devices representing the partitions in the native NT device namespace, i.e., \Device\Harddisk0\Partition0, etc. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Maintainer "--Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.htmlFAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.htmlUnsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple";
