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Re: UUIDs for FAT Drives
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Re: UUIDs for FAT Drives


  • Subject: Re: UUIDs for FAT Drives
  • From: SevenBits <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 10:06:03 -0400

On Tuesday, July 8, 2014, Pax <email@hidden> wrote:

> Why not use the serial number of the USB device and the creation date of
> the volume?  Armed with those two pieces of information, you should be
> reasonably sure of a good match…


Are you aware of any way I could get this information using Cocoa, IOKit,
or some other OS X API?


>
>
> On 8 Jul 2014, at 15:01, SevenBits <email@hidden <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday, July 8, 2014, Scott Ribe <email@hidden
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> >> On Jul 7, 2014, at 8:01 PM, SevenBits <email@hidden
> <javascript:;>
> >> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Is there any supported way to get the UUID of a FAT-formatted drive? Or
> >> another method which can uniquely identify USBs of all major filesystem
> >> types?
> >>
> >> FAT drives do not have UUIDs.
> >
> >
> > Ah, that's what I feared. Do you know of any other methods I could use to
> > uniquely identify a FAT drive?
> >
> >
> >>
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