cat /proc/partitions shows only devices, not partitions

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Hashim Aziz!

> This was an issue that I had previously in September of last year and sent
> the issue to this mailing list ("win-mounts no longer displays anything when
> doing "cat /proc/partitions") but the issue stopped occurring before I could
> get around to diagnosing it. This issue has now re-occurred and this time it seems permanent. When I run:

> $ cat /proc/partitions
> major minor  #blocks  name   win-mounts

>     8     0         0 sda
>     8    16         0 sdb
>     8    32         0 sdc
>     8    48         0 sdd
>     8    64         0 sde
>     8    80         0 sdf

$ cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name   win-mounts

    8     0  78150744 sda
    8     1    102400 sda1
    8     2    131072 sda2
    8     3  77916160 sda3   C:\ C:\dev\sda1\
    8    16 488386584 sdb
    8    17 486615520 sdb1
    8    32 488386584 sdc
    8    33 488384512 sdc1
    8    48 312571224 sdd
    8    49 312568641 sdd1
    8    64         0 sde
    8    80         0 sdf
    8    96         0 sdg
    8   112         0 sdh

> ...I see nothing at all in the win-mounts column. This makes it impossible
> for me to see which Windows drive letter maps to which /dev/sdX entry.

This seems like a permissions issue.

> win-mounts column. I'm running Cygwin on Windows 7 (yes I'm aware it's EOL).

Same here. Win 7 Pro SP1.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Wednesday, March 4, 2020 22:00:31

Sorry for my terrible english...


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