On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:15:56PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Jul 29 15:34, Schwarz, Konrad wrote: >> > > Can you answer the following question: >> > > >> > > Given a volume label, how does one figure out where the >> > corresponding >> > > volume has been mounted into the Cygwin namespace? >> > >> > We're not mounting volumes, we're mounting Win32 paths. >> > There is no direct correspondence between volumes and Cygwin >> > mount points. >> >> When a person inserts removable media (USB memory stick, optical disk, ...), >> Windows assigns a more-or-less random drive letter. >> Cygwin automatically makes this drive letter available >> under /cygdrive/ (or whatever the user has renamed /cygdrive to). >> >> Given a (unique) volume label or disk UUID, blk_id(8) on >> both Linux and Cygwin tells you the disk and partition >> in /dev/sdXY format. > >It does? Interesting. Where does it get the data under Cygwin?
Huh. On my system blk_id(8) says "command not found". And, http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=blk_id says "Found 0 matches for blk_id" cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
