Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 7 13:06, Christian Franke wrote: > > According to > > http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2007-05/msg00359.html > > http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-patches/2006-q4/msg00008.html > > Cygwin includes support to mount a //?/GLOBALROOT/... path > > No, it doesn't. It allows to *access* the path, but the mount call > follows a somewhat different route. You can only access the path > directly (a concenssion to a necessity which has no POSIX equivalent) > or, as you did, map the VSS volume to a drive letter. The patch is > not in 1.5.25, btw., only in 1.7.0. >
Thanks for clarification. The access to the path works, except the access to the root dir of the volume. It appears as a regular file which apparently provides raw read access to the partition: $ ls -l '//?/GLOBALROOT/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1' -rw-r--r-- 1 ... 0 Dec 1 2006 //?/.../HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1 $ xxd '//?/GLOBALROOT/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1' 0000000: eb52 904e 5446 5320 2020 2000 0208 0000 .R.NTFS ..... ... $ ls -l '//?/GLOBALROOT/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1/' ls: cannot access //?/.../HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1/: Not a directory $ ls -l '//?/GLOBALROOT/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1/.' ls: cannot access //?/.../HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1/.: Not a directory Files/Dirs below the root dir can be accessed: $ ls -l '//?/GLOBALROOT/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1/boot.ini' -rwx------+ 1 ... 429 Jun 12 16:10 //?/.../...VolumeShadowCopy1/boot.ini $ ls -l '//?/GLOBALROOT/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1/cygwin' drwx------+ 1 ... 0 Oct 31 16:14 bin drwx------+ 1 ... 0 Sep 12 2007 cygdrive -rwx------+ 1 ... 209 Jun 19 2006 cygwin.bat ... With a drive mapping, the root dir can be accessed: $ dosdev v: '\\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1' $ ls -ld /cygdrive/v drwxrwxr-x+ 1 ... 0 Nov 6 14:03 /cygdrive/v $ ls -l /cygdrive/v -rwx------+ 1 ... 429 Jun 12 16:10 boot.ini ... Christian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
