Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 07:23:48 -0800 (PST) From: Dave Wells <wellsian@caffeine.com> To: Glen Mann <gmann@cyberia.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting DOS Volume Label Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003050659140.6344-100000@boris.netgate.net> In-Reply-To: <38C273C2.20BC2AE7@cyberia.com>
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Whoops. Make that rfd0 so you can read while it's mounted. You're right,
formatting seems weird or broken. Or I just need some sleep...
On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Glen Mann wrote:
> wellsian wrote:
> >
> > I'm sure there's a less geekish method, but this works:
> >
> > hd -n 11 -s 0x2600 /dev/fd0
> >
> > Dave
>
> Geekish? On Unix? This is beautiful. I used
>
> hd -n 11 -s 0x2600 /dev/fd0 | awk -F\| ' NR==1 {print $2}'
>
> to get the volume label. Couldn't get the hd format strings to work, hence
> awk. This does not work if the floppy is mounted though.
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