[Gllug] Cygwin confusion...

[Chris Bell]

On Fri 26 Mar, general_email at technicalbloke.com wrote:
> 
> Fair enough, I installed that and copied the cygwin1.dll to the same
> folder as the .exe and it runs BUT...
> 
> A) I'm not sure how to reference the drives in windows, fdisk -l doesn't
> work as cygwin doesn't seem to have fdisk and ls /dev at the cygwin
> prompt only shows half a dozen devices, none of them a hard drive: "fd
> mqueue shm stderr stdin stdout". Do I need to use the
> \\?\Device\HardDiskVolume3 style syntax here?
> 
> B) I'd like to keep the 55Gb (of the 80Gb disk) dd was able to do before
> falling over as it took about 15hrs to get that far and this drive is
> clearly living on borrowed time. Is there a way I can get it to extend
> the partial image I already have?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Roger.

   I would not even consider doing fsck until all the information possible
had been backed up to another disk. I would disconnect the drive until able
to do a backup, either using dd or a file copy to another disc. If the
computer will not boot from Knoppix or similar I would connect the drive to
another computer which I could boot and do the backup there. Reliability
would be far more important than speed, so I would be happy to use an older
computer for the job.

-- 
Chris Bell www.chrisbell.org.uk (was www.overview.demon.co.uk)
Microsoft sells you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house.

-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug