From: Christian Franke <Christian.Franke@t-online.de>
To: cygwin-patches@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Cygwin: Add /dev/disk/by-drive and /dev/disk/by-uuid symlinks
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 12:50:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d4cd305a-1a23-633b-3327-6ec01cf462b6@t-online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZVXwnUgd3UnIqBQf@calimero.vinschen.de>
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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.
What is the best way to retrieve a FAT* serial? There is
GetVolumeInformation{ByHandleW}(), but this may not work with the NT
Layer pathnames / handles used here. In Cygwin tree,
GetVolumeInformation only appears in cygcheck.cc and very old ChangeLogs.
> 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 ?
Christian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-16 11:50 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 [this message]
2023-11-16 12:19 ` Corinna Vinschen
2023-11-16 17:02 ` Christian Franke
2023-11-17 12:11 ` Corinna Vinschen
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