The issue appears to be with ntfsclone in that it must point to something in /proc/partitions. It will not work with any /cygdrive/X (used dosdev.c from Corinna and typical vshadow to expose as a drive with no luck). I found this out by commenting out the read-only check and rebuilding ntfsclone/ntfsinfo. The code apparently uses a win32_io.c file when building on cygwin. This file creates its own device mappings (e.g. /dev/hda1 instead of using the existing /dev/sda1). I guess there would be a way to modify it to use cygwin devices but I don't know how.
If shadow copies could be presented as block devices to this library then it would open up a lot of possibilities for creating block-level clones of partitions without having to boot to a live CD. I guess it is dd piped through gzip for now. It sure is a waste when you only have 50GB on a 500GB drive since dd processes the entire drive. Does anyone have anything else to add? I'm guessing not... Rob ------------------- original note Does anyone know of an ntfsclone package that works under 1.7? I tried compiling 2.0 from sourceforge. I didn't get any errors from ./configure, make, or make install but the executable doesn't return anything when I run it. ntfsclone --help doesn't return anything either. I've been using dd with volume shadow copies to capture partitions (very cool direct reference of //?/GLOBALROOT devices!). I'd prefer to use ntfsclone for speed. Rob -- 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
