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The other day, someone posted a message at work asking for a way to find out the drive letter for partition 1 on the first disk.
The first response offered this:
C:>echo list volume | diskpart
Microsoft DiskPart version 5.1.3565
Copyright (C) 1999-2003 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: SINISTAR
DISKPART>
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 0 F DVD-ROM 0 B
Volume 1 C BOOTDRIVE FAT32 Partition 9 GB Healthy System
Volume 2 D Application NTFS Partition 15 GB Healthy Pagefile
Volume 3 E SharedAndUn NTFS Partition 10 GB Healthy
DISKPART>
C:\>
The original poster then asked if anyone already had a script to parse the output of diskpart. I helpfully offered this:
@for /f "tokens=3" %%x in ('echo list volume ^| diskpart ^| findstr /c:"Volume %1"') do @echo %%x
"How clever of me," thought I. "Simply pass in a volume number and it neatly spits out the drive letter." I was all proud of myself until someone pointed out that we already had a perfectly good .exe that did the same thing.
The moral? It's all fun and games 'til you find out you just reinvented the wheel...
Comments
- Anonymous
October 01, 2005
..and what is the name of that exe? thanks. - Anonymous
October 03, 2005
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