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Re: Identifying disks/volumes by a unique ID?
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Re: Identifying disks/volumes by a unique ID?


  • Subject: Re: Identifying disks/volumes by a unique ID?
  • From: Ken Thomases <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:03:38 -0500

On Mar 24, 2009, at 6:05 AM, Oleg Krupnov wrote:

My app needs to disable some functions when a disk (volume) is
unmounted, and then enable the functions back again if the *same*
volume is mounted back again.

Is there a kind of unique IDs on disks and volumes I could use for
identifying them?

Yes. Check out DADiskCopyDescription. It returns a dictionary which may include keys kDADiskDescriptionVolumeUUIDKey and kDADiskDescriptionMediaUUIDKey, one of which will probably serve your needs.


A good resource is the FSMegaInfo sample code <http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/FSMegaInfo/ >. It's a command-line tool which can call just about every file- system-querying API in Mac OS X.

Cheers,
Ken

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