Re: associating device names with cygdrive directories

["Larry Hall \(Cygwin\)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

On 8/25/2010 2:49 PM, Charles D. Russell wrote:
> What is the best way to find or predict the association of a given /dev/sd?
> with the corresponding /cygdrive/?. Is there a good way to verify the
> assignment before writing to the device with dd?

I think this link should help a little:

<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-posixdevices>

The POSIX device names are generated from the Windows information/layout
of these devices.  So your best bet is to look to Windows to get the
device number <-> drive letter association and then fill in the rest
from there.  There is no "one-stop shopping" utility that I know of
that will do all that for you.

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