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cygwin /dev/sd* disk association to hard drive

Under cygwin on Windows 7, how would I certainly determine the hard drive that some path /dev/sd* corresponds in Windows?

For example, given cygwin path /dev/sdc, which Windows letter drive does it correspond, C:\, D:\, etc.?

The following don't appear available within cygwin; tool lshw, tool parted, path /dev/disk/....

Solution

  • Assuming you are asking how to map Windows Disk to devices:

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

    8     0 175825944 sda
    8     1 175824896 sda1   C:\
    8    16 1953514582 sdb
    8    17 1953512448 sdb1   E:\