From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-patches@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Cygwin: Add /dev/disk/by-drive and /dev/disk/by-uuid symlinks
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2023 13:11:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZVdYhc9oSoXqWtpm@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2d02d56a-a2bc-6c15-10ff-2364aa73fd21@t-online.de>
On Nov 16 18:02, Christian Franke wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Nov 16 12:50, Christian Franke wrote:
> > ...
> > > > 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?
> > > Hmm...... yes. Should both information be provided in by-uuid or only the
> > > serial numbers? In the latter case, should we add e.g. by-voluuid for the
> > > volume GUIDs ?
> > Good question... by-voluuid sounds like a nice idea. It's a Windows-only
> > concept anyway, so it might make sense to present it in its own directory.
>
> Then by-voluuid is easy, changed patch is attached.
Pushed.
> I try to provide a patch
> for a new by-uuid with filesystem serial numbers soon.
Cool!
Thanks,
Corinna
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-17 12:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-15 17:23 Christian Franke
2023-11-16 10:36 ` Corinna Vinschen
2023-11-16 11:50 ` Christian Franke
2023-11-16 12:19 ` Corinna Vinschen
2023-11-16 17:02 ` Christian Franke
2023-11-17 12:11 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
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