Shadowcopy volume block devices
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed May 29 13:45:00 GMT 2013
On May 29 16:20, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
>
> > Btw., as a sidenote, are you aware that you can access the filesystem
> > underneath the volume shadow copy as well?
>
> > Try this (note the trailing backslash!):
>
> > $ cd /proc/sys/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1/
> > $ ls
>
> > The only downside is that you can't cd into the root dir of the
> > shadowcopy by using a ".." expression:
>
> > $ cd /proc/sys/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1/Users
> > $ cd ..
> > /proc/sys/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1: Not a directory.
> > $ cd ../
> > /proc/sys/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1: Not a directory.
>
> > Here the path handling strips off the trailing backslash and what's
> > left is a block device called /proc/sys/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1.
> > With that in mind, it's quite usable, though.
>
> Can this be worked around by a symlink or junction point? (I don't have access
> to SVC-enabled box yet, sorry.)
How do you workaround the usage of ".." with symlink or junction?
If so, you don't use ".." anymore.
Corinna
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