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Kevin R. Bulgrien [kbulgrien at worldnet.att.net]


Sun, 8 Apr 2007 21:35:26 -0500

"getting volume label for CD" at https://linuxgazette.net/issue72/tag/2.html does not really have a good answer. I suggest something like this:

To find the volume name of a CD or other device, use the volname utility. For example:

$ grep hdc /etc/fstab
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0022,users,iocharset=utf8,sync,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
$ sudo volname /dev/hdc
46368_546292
The volume name of the CD in /dev/hdc is "46368_546292".

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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]


Mon, 9 Apr 2007 15:30:06 -0400

On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 09:35:26PM -0500, Kevin R. Bulgrien wrote:

> "getting volume label for CD" at https://linuxgazette.net/issue72/tag/2.html does not really
> have a good answer.  I suggest something like this:
> 
> To find the volume name of a CD or other device, use the volname utility.
> For example:
> 
> $ grep hdc /etc/fstab
> /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0022,users,iocharset=utf8,sync,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
> $ sudo volname /dev/hdc
> 46368_546292
> 
> The volume name of the CD in /dev/hdc is "46368_546292".

Actually, we had a great discussion about it just a couple of issues after that:

https://linuxgazette.net/issue74/tag/7.html

I still have the script that Ernesto sent in that time - and it still works just as well as it ever did. Note that it extracts far more than just the name.

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