[PATCH] Cygwin: Add /dev/disk/by-label and /dev/disk/by-uuid symlinks
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Nov 17 16:23:24 GMT 2023
On Nov 17 15:39, Christian Franke wrote:
> The last two /dev/disk subdirectories :-)
>
> Note a minor difference: On Linux, empty /dev/disk subdirectories apparently
> never appear. A subdirectory is not listed in /dev/disk if it would be
> empty. Not worth the effort to emulate.
Agreed. This is really great. I just pushed your patch.
However, there's something strange in terms of by-label:
I have two partitions with labels:
$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-label
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 corinna vinschen 0 Nov 17 17:18 blub -> ../../sda3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 corinna vinschen 0 Nov 17 17:18 blub2 -> ../../sdb2
$
Now I change the label of sdb2 to the same "blub" string as on sda3:
$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-label
total 0
$
I'd expected to see only one, due to the name collision, but en empty
dir is a bit surprising... And it may occur more often than not, given
that the default label "New_Volume" probably won't get changed very
often.
Thanks,
Corinna
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