Volume id

[Gabor Urban]

OK, you are right... Problem was not precise enough. I need to process CDs
to create a list. Does it ring a bell for you?

Thanks


2007/11/15, Laszlo Nagy <gandalf at shopzeus.com>:
>
> Gabor Urban wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a problem, which may be trivial, but I could not find an answer.
> >
> > I have to write a Python script, which does a directory tree walking
> > on given mounted disk. But I do need to extract the volume id,
> > somehow. And that's the problem.  An additional issue, the script will
> > be used on unix type systems, and on MS XP or Vista, too....
> >
> > Any ideas are wellcome.
> I believe (although not 100% sure) that "volume id" always belongs to a
> FAT partition (maybe an NTFS partition?). When you format a partition,
> it will give you a - hopefully unique - volume identifier. I don't think
> that unix partitions (like reiserfs, ext2, ext3, ufs2 etc.) has that
> identifier. I may be wrong, others will probably correct me.
>
> Do you want to know the identifier (serial number?) of the disk device
> instead? E.g. not the partition but the hard disk?
>
> Can you list the platforms/operating systems where you want to use your
> program? It might help to look at the documentation/source code or the
> various hardware diagnostic utilities.
>
> Best,
>
>    Laszlo
>
>
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