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

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Aug 2 14:41:00 GMT 2021


On Aug  2 14:11, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin wrote:
> > -----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.

Just paste it into your mail text.


Corinna


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