Shadowcopy volume block devices

Wed May 29 19:19:00 GMT 2013

Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
>> > Btw., as a sidenote, are you aware that you can access the filesystem
>> > underneath the volume shadow copy as well?
>>>> > Try this (note the trailing backslash!):
>>>> > $ cd /proc/sys/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1/
>> > $ ls
>>>> > The only downside is that you can't cd into the root dir of the
>> > shadowcopy by using a ".." expression:
>>>> > $ cd /proc/sys/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1/Users
>> > $ cd ..
>> > /proc/sys/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1: Not a directory.
>> > $ cd ../
>> > /proc/sys/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1: Not a directory.
>>>> > Here the path handling strips off the trailing backslash and what's
>> > left is a block device called /proc/sys/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1.
>> > With that in mind, it's quite usable, though.
>>>> Can this be worked around by a symlink or junction point? (I don't have access
>> to SVC-enabled box yet, sorry.)

> How do you workaround the usage of ".." with symlink or junction?
> If so, you don't use ".." anymore.

Oh, sorry for the noise. While reading the end of your message I forgot, what
was in the beginning of it, it seems...
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 29.05.2013, <22:44>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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