Greetings, Charles D. Russell! > Maybe it won't always work, but with debian "mount" I get the > following line of output, which tells me what I want to know (and more):
> /dev/sda1 on /live/image type vfat > (rw,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,allow_utime=177777,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8) > I infer from the replies that in Cygwin there is no easier way to find > my way around in /dev than the way I was doing it, though I realize > "strings" is a better choice than "od". With dd > if=/dev/sda|strings|less I discovered that /dev/sda is actually my hard > drive. It's a very rough guess, and only work in limited amount of instances. You still have to check if the target device you got from mount table is actually a block device. And, please, use "reply" option when replying to list, instead of writing new message. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 26.08.2010, <6:31> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
