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 wa

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). >> >>But how do I know the order of device names? It all depends when the >>devices are

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

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 t

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

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\b

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 /d

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 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

Re: POSIX devices

2005-06-16 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 typ