Re: Unique Identifier for Disk
Re: Unique Identifier for Disk
- Subject: Re: Unique Identifier for Disk
- From: Jeffrey Berman <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:47:47 -0500
On 4/28/04 10:37 AM, "John C. Welch" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
On 4/26/04 6:33 AM, "Jeffrey Berman" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> Applications such as the Finder and System Events see partitioned volumes as
>
> "disk" objects. Is there a unique identifier for a disk that is not the
>
> startup disk and that would persist over restarts so that an AppleScript
>
> script referring to the disk would work as expected even if the name of the
>
> disk changes?
>
>
If you only want local drives, then you can, but you have to parse the
>
output of disktool so that you can use Mike's -k switch on hfs.util. Then
>
compare UUIDs.
John:
At least on my system (OS X 10.2.8), the help text from the 'hfs.util'
command does not list a -k option and the command returns nothing when I use
it with a device file name. For example, the main partition of my startup
disk is associated with the device file "disk0s9" but the command:
/System/Library/Filesystems/hfs.fs/hfs.util -k disk0s9
does not return anything.
-Jeffrey Berman
_______________________________________________
applescript-users mailing list | email@hidden
Help/Unsubscribe/Archives:
http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/applescript-users
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.