Seeing double in /proc/partitions (Win 7 Home)

Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] lavr@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Mon Aug 2 14:11:52 GMT 2021


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2021 10:03 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Seeing double in /proc/partitions (Win 7 Home)
> 
> > If you don't have it already, download the winobj tool from
> > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/winobj
> > and check the content of the Device directory.
> 
> I had winobj installed, and I'm attaching the screenshots of both drive C and other drives
> (they are shown all the same way):
> 
> Ironically, drive C (which is not dupped in the /proc/partitions output) is shown to have
> two partitions,
> but all other drives are all the same with only one (as shown in the attached pic, with
> the only difference
> for the numeric suffixes with increase sequentially).  The last drive (S:), which is not
> duplicated, either,
> has the drive number and partition number with a jump, as a two-digit number (attached,
> too)...
> 
> Anton Lavrentiev
> Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI

I think the list does not let me attach anything and thus discards the post entirely.

Drive C: screenshot: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tqCzx5aKWIuju1K0Rd9-1iJddq0VUuhs/view?usp=sharing
Other drives:        https://drive.google.com/file/d/1geb2H9hq-E6zqNLyPEJn-e1ugvlBtHMV/view?usp=sharing
Last drive (S:):     https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vfTOR5RLys1fBcFlIYpdNHmMlXkNimdM/view?usp=sharing

Anton Lavrentiev
Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI



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