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Re: accessing a raw partition
- From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: freemyer-ml at NorcrossGroup dot com, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 18:02:36 -0500
- Subject: Re: accessing a raw partition
- References: <1076107971.24281.53.camel@david.internal.NorcrossGroup.com>
- Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
At 05:52 PM 2/6/2004, Greg Freemyer you wrote:
>I have used cygwin and dd to access a raw physical drive before.
>
>$ mount -f -b //./physicaldrive2 /dev/tmp_name
>
>$ dd if=/dev/tmp_name ....
>
>
>
>Is there a way to access a raw partition?
You don't need to do any mounting. See the User's Guide:
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN812>
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