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author | kay.sievers@vrfy.org <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> | 2004-05-05 22:21:48 -0700 |
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committer | Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> | 2005-04-26 21:35:17 -0700 |
commit | 599b626127f420236b8757a1e9bccc8b07081a01 (patch) | |
tree | 3213133ebcaa42997440427c33f3096f21daf61a /extras/volume_id/README | |
parent | 3611d5820c0fc0863d15c04884b05c9e04492f45 (diff) |
[PATCH] udev callout for reading filesystem labels
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 03:29:54PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 11:04:46PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > Hi,
> > here is a small udev toy, which enables udev to name partitions by
> > its filesystem label or uuid's.
> >
> > The following udev rule:
> >
> > KERNEL="sd*", PROGRAM="/sbin/udev_volume_id -M%M -m%m -u", SYMLINK="%c"
> >
> > creates a symlink with the uuid read from the filesystem. If no label or
> > uuid is found the program exits with nonzero and the rule will fail.
> >
> > ext2, ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs, vfat, msdos volume labels are supported,
> > ntfs and swap partitions can be recognized.
> >
> > It's possible to compile with klibc and the static binary takes 13kb.
>
> Very nice, I was wondering who was going to use that library to make
> such a tool. This is even better as we can use klibc for it.
Here is a update, which supports iso9660 and udf labels.
Not very useful in the udev case, but I've added it for hal,
so we just catch up with the latest version.
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