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associating volume labels with drive letters
- From: "Nellis, Kenneth" <Kenneth dot Nellis at xerox dot com>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:35:35 +0000
- Subject: associating volume labels with drive letters
- References: <20110729201556.GA13084@calimero.vinschen.de>
From: Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 29 15:34, Schwarz, Konrad wrote:
> > > > Can you answer the following question:
> > > >
> > > > Given a volume label, how does one figure out where the
> > > corresponding
> > > > volume has been mounted into the Cygwin namespace?
> > >
<snip>
> > In Linux, you can look up the mount point for device /dev/sdXY
> > in /proc/mounts or in the output of mount(8). Thus, given
> > a volume label, you can figure out where to access the files
> > on the volume.
> >
> > How do you do that in Cygwin?
>
> ls /cygdrive. Insert the disk. ls /cygdrive again. There's a new
> directory entry now.
>
> Or, open the "Computer" Window on your desktop.
Dredging up an old thread
(http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2011-07/msg00390.html)...
Regarding Corinna's last suggestion, it seems to me that if
Windows can associate a volume label with a drive letter,
there must be a way to script this association, whether
using Cygwin shell commands directly or indirectly through
DOS commands.
Using blkid(8), from the util-linux package, I can get a device
name from a label:
$ blkid -L CRUZER
/dev/sdc1
Now, if I'm on the right path, how can I associate that
block-special file with a drive letter or a /cygdrive/x
path reference?
--Ken Nellis