Hi Christian,
On Nov 15 18:23, Christian Franke wrote:
> This is the next (and possibly last for now) extension to the /dev/disk
> directory. Limited to disk related entries which allowed a straightforward
> extension of the existing code.
>
> My original idea was to add also other drive letters and volume GUIDs. Too
> complex for now.
>
> Interestingly the volume GUID (by-uuid) for partitions on MBR disks is
> sometimes identical to the partition "GUID" (by-partuuid), sometimes (always
> for C:?) not. With GPT disks, both GUIDs are possibly always identical.
That looks great, but in terms of by-uuid, I'm not sure it's the
right thing to do. On Linux I have a vfat partition (/boot/efi).
The uuid in /dev/disk/by-uuid is the volume serial number, just
with an extra dash, i.e.
057A-B3A7 -> ../../sda1
That's what you get for FAT/FAT32/exFAT.
I also tried an NTFS partition and the output looks like this:
0FD4F62866CFBF09 -> ../../sdc1
This is the 64 bit volume serial number as returned by
DeviceIoControl(FSCTL_GET_NTFS_VOLUME_DATA)(*).
Wouldn't that be what we want to see, too?
Thanks,
Corinna
(*) Incidentally the last 8 digits represent the crippled 4 byte
serial number returned by
NtQueryVolumeInformationFile(..., FileFsVolumeInformation).
