RE: associating volume labels with drive letters

["Nellis, Kenneth" <Kenneth.Nellis@xerox.com>]

-----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}'
G
$

--Ken Nellis

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