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):
$ chown $USER /* -v
ownership of '/bin' retained as Hashim
chown: changing ownership of '/cygdrive': Permission denied
failed to change ownership of '/cygdrive' from Hashim to Hashim
chown: changing ownership of '/Cygwin.bat': Permission denied
failed to change ownership of '/Cygwin.bat' from Hashim to Hashim
chown: changing ownership of '/Cygwin.ico': Permission denied
failed to change ownership of '/Cygwin.ico' from Hashim to Hashim
chown: changing ownership of '/Cygwin-Terminal.ico': Permission denied
failed to change ownership of '/Cygwin-Terminal.ico' from Hashim to Hashim
ownership of '/dev' retained as Hashim
ownership of '/etc' retained as Hashim
ownership of '/home' retained as Hashim
ownership of '/lib' retained as Hashim
ownership of '/opt' retained as Hashim
chown: changing ownership of '/proc': Operation not permitted
failed to change ownership of '/proc' from Hashim to Hashim
ownership of '/sbin' retained as Hashim
ownership of '/srv' retained as Hashim
ownership of '/tmp' retained as Hashim
ownership of '/usr' retained as Hashim
ownership of '/var' retained as Hashim
Whether the above output is normal or not I'm unsure.
From: Corinna Vinschen
Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2020 10:44 AM
To: Hashim Aziz
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cat /proc/partitions shows only devices, not partitions
On Mar 3 00:54, Hashim Aziz wrote:
> Hey Corinna, thanks for your quick reply.
>
> Regarding the elevated shell - I'm unsure of exactly how to run an
> elevated Cygwin shell?
Right click on the Cygwin Terminal icon on the desktop, choose the
item "Run as administrator".
I have no idea why your system has different permissions, but at least
you should be able to see the info in an elevated shell.
Corinna
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