VFAT Volume Labels

Kay Sievers kay.sievers at vrfy.org
Mon Jan 10 08:16:48 PST 2005


On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 19:07 -0700, joeny at softhome.net wrote:
> Kay Sievers writes: 
> 
> > Ahh, I see. this is your label (I hope :)): 
> > 
> >   00000040  57 49 4e 44 4f 57 53 20  20 20 20 28 00 c7 12 b7  |WINDOWS    (....|
> >   00000050  9c 31 9c 31 00 00 13 b7  9c 31 00 00 00 00 00 00  |.1.1.....1......| 
> > 
> > The entry has the "archive" bit set which is not in the standard,
> > but we can just do what Microsoft is doing itself. We look for
> > the ID and skip any directory. 
> > 
> > Hope this works now. Would be nice if you can change the label
> > in Windows and recheck it if we got it now. 
> > 
> > New version attached.
> 
> Yay! It worked. O happy day! 
> 
> Could I apply the patch to my current version (hal-0.4.2-1.FC3) or
> only to the latest version? 

I've committed it to the CVS version now. You should be able to drop the
volume_id.c file into the older version, but David will fix the FC3
package soon, so you may just wait for it...

Thanks again for all your help,
Kay

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