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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers "Pipe" character in filename Post 302541128 by Corona688 on Friday 22nd of July 2011 02:16:12 PM
Old 07-22-2011
Cygwin is not an emulator. It runs inside Windows and has all the same limits.

It would be really helpful to know what the external drive's filesystem was.

Try a Knoppix livecd. You can boot into a complete Linux system off DVD without installing anything on your computer.
 

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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS

grub2-probe

GRUB-PROBE(3)						     Library Functions Manual						     GRUB-PROBE(3)

NAME

       grub-probe -- Probe device information for a given path.

SYNOPSIS

       grub-probe  [-m | --device-map=FILE]
		   [-t | --target=(fs|fs_uuid|fs_label|drive|device|partmap|
				   abstraction|cryptodisk_uuid|
				   msdos_parttype)]
		   [-v | --verbose] (PATH|DEVICE)

DESCRIPTION

       grub-probe probes a path or device for filesystem and related information.

OPTIONS

       --device
	      Final option represents a DEVICE, rather than a filesystem PATH.

       --device-map=FILE
	      Use FILE as the device map.  The default value is /boot/grub/device.map.

       --target=(fs|fs_uuid|fs_label|drive|device|partmap|msdos_parttype)
	      Select among various output definitions.	The default is fs.

	      fs     filesystem module

	      fs_uuid
		     filesystem UUID

	      fs_label
		     filesystem label

	      drive  GRUB drive name

	      device System device

	      partmap
		     partition map module

	      abstraction
		     abstraction module

	      cryptodisk_uuid
		     cryptographic container

	      msdos_partmap
		     MS-DOS partition map

       --verbose
	      Print verbose output.

       (PATH|DEVICE)
	      If --device is passed, a block DEVICE.  Otherwise, the PATH of a file on the filesystem.

SEE ALSO

       info grub

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