Jwelch wrote on 26 June 2008 18:13: > I've been trying to do a block copy of one of my systems but I'm having an > issue with finding the partition on cygwin. When I go to /dev, I don't see > my hard drives so I can't do a DD.
Even though you don't see them, they are there. The /dev filesystem is (more-or-less) entirely synthetic under cygwin. See here for the details of the device names you'll want to use: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html Note especially the first paragraph under "POSIX devices". cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
