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Re: associating volume labels with drive letters
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:51:44 +0200
- Subject: Re: associating volume labels with drive letters
- References: <0D835E9B9CD07F40A48423F80D3B5A70022CCD@USA7109MB022.na.xerox.net> <0D835E9B9CD07F40A48423F80D3B5A7002E69D@USA7109MB022.na.xerox.net>
On Oct 19 18:45, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nellis, Kenneth
> From: Mark O'Keefe
> > Hi,
> >
> > Here is a perl script which I believe should do the trick.
> >
> > It adds: (for example)
> > DRIVE="C:"
> > to the end of the blkid output where the drive letter matches the correct drive location.
> >
> > Along the same lines I've also played around with a customised version of cygwin that allows the mount
> > command to use UUID's to identify the drive letter instead of hard coding into fstab. This would be useful
> > if you wanted specific drives to be mounted to specific locations without dependence on the drive letter.
> >
> > I haven't extensively tested this, just quickly put it together to give you the idea.
> <snip>
>
> Thanx, Mark. Works great!
> --Ken Nellis
> -----END Original Message-----
>
> The following bash command line provides another way to learn the
> drive letter associated with a given label, in this case the drive
> labeled "CRUZER":
>
> $ echo -e "list volume\nexit" | diskpart | awk '/CRUZER/ {print $3}'
Better make that /bin/echo. The tcsh echo works slightly different
than bash's version...
Corinna
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