Re: Documentation problem with the UG - POSIX devices?

2015-11-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 11 16:22, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-posixdevices > > In the paragraph starting "Block devices are accessible ..." > > "... or the first partition on the third harddisk is > \device\harddisk2\partition1."

Documentation problem with the UG - POSIX devices?

2015-11-11 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-posixdevices In the paragraph starting "Block devices are accessible ..." "... or the first partition on the third harddisk is \device\harddisk2\partition1." Shouldn't partition1 be the second partition, not the first? Best

Re: POSIX devices

2005-06-18 Thread Bengt-Arne Fjellner
Oliver Vecernik wrote: Bengt-Arne Fjellner schrieb: [...] so you get windows disk number. cygwin /ev/sdX disksize and partition size plus a good guess of what filesystem it has. NOT always perfect. The partition number is the the same as Y in /dev/sdXY Hope this helps. This was exaclty

POSIX devices

2005-06-17 Thread Oliver Vecernik
Hi all, I'd like to inspect some MBR's from various devices. I have an external Firewire disk (x:), an USB stick (e:) and a flash card (F:, pcmcia). $ mount C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system (binmo de) C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type user (binmode)

Re: POSIX devices

2005-06-17 Thread Carlo Florendo
Oliver Vecernik wrote: Hi all, I'd like to inspect some MBR's from various devices. I have an external Firewire disk (x:), an USB stick (e:) and a flash card (F:, pcmcia). $ mount C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system (binmo de) C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin

RE: POSIX devices

2005-06-17 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carlo Florendo Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 1:13 AM To: Oliver Vecernik Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: POSIX devices Oliver Vecernik wrote: Hi all, I'd like to inspect some MBR's from

Re: POSIX devices

2005-06-17 Thread Arturus Magi
Carlo Florendo wrote: Oliver Vecernik wrote: But how do I know the order of device names? It all depends when the devices are plugged on to the system. Is there a command to find out? dd if=/dev/sd? of=/tmp/foo bs=512 count=1 AFAIK, Cygwin does not implement the /dev directory. Cygwin

Re: POSIX devices

2005-06-17 Thread Carlo Florendo
Arturus Magi wrote: Carlo Florendo wrote: Oliver Vecernik wrote: But how do I know the order of device names? It all depends when the devices are plugged on to the system. Is there a command to find out? dd if=/dev/sd? of=/tmp/foo bs=512 count=1 AFAIK, Cygwin does not implement the

Re: POSIX devices

2005-06-17 Thread Brian Dessent
Oliver Vecernik wrote: C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system (binmo de) This, I believe, is an ancient artifact of an old way that the x11 packages used to work, and you can remove this mount. C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type user (binmode) C:\cygwin\bin

Re: POSIX devices

2005-06-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 12:40:29AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: Oliver Vecernik wrote: C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system (binmo de) This, I believe, is an ancient artifact of an old way that the x11 packages used to work, and you can remove this mount. I

Re: POSIX devices

2005-06-17 Thread Brian Dessent
Christopher Faylor wrote: This, I believe, is an ancient artifact of an old way that the x11 packages used to work, and you can remove this mount. I don't believe that this mount is optional. /usr/X11RT/lib/X11/fonts really does need to be mounted in binary mode. I was just basing that on

Re: POSIX devices

2005-06-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 08:36:04AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: This, I believe, is an ancient artifact of an old way that the x11 packages used to work, and you can remove this mount. I don't believe that this mount is optional. /usr/X11RT/lib/X11/fonts really

Re: POSIX devices

2005-06-17 Thread Bengt-Arne Fjellner
Carlo Florendo wrote: Oliver Vecernik wrote: Hi all, I'd like to inspect some MBR's from various devices. I have an external Firewire disk (x:), an USB stick (e:) and a flash card (F:, pcmcia). snip But how do I know the order of device names? It all depends when the devices are plugged on