On Jul 30 00:52, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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"
Konrad means blkid. It's in the util-linux package. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
