Re: [tlug] Trouble with external USB hard disk: drive order; hard and optical drive names

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On 2008-10-22 10:43 +0100 (Wed), Godwin Stewart wrote:

> On a (V)FAT filesystem, a volume label is technically a file on the
> disk. The filesystem therefore has to be mounted already for the O/S
> to know what the label is....

Technically, not really, no; you could just read the raw device and
interpret enough of the file system layout to get that one filename out
of the root directory. Some programs (or, at least, some BSD programs)
are already taking this approach just to figure out if there's really a
vfat filesystem in that partition.

cjs
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