associating volume labels with drive letters

Thu Sep 13 16:27:00 GMT 2012

From: Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 29 15:34, Schwarz, Konrad wrote:
> > > > Can you answer the following question:
> > > > 
> > > > Given a volume label, how does one figure out where the 
> > > corresponding 
> > > > volume has been mounted into the Cygwin namespace?
> > > 
<snip>
> > In Linux, you can look up the mount point for device /dev/sdXY
> > in /proc/mounts or in the output of mount(8). Thus, given
> > a volume label, you can figure out where to access the files
> > on the volume.
> > 
> > How do you do that in Cygwin?
>> ls /cygdrive. Insert the disk. ls /cygdrive again. There's a new
> directory entry now.
>> Or, open the "Computer" Window on your desktop.

Dredging up an old thread
(http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2011-07/msg00390.html)...
Regarding Corinna's last suggestion, it seems to me that if 
Windows can associate a volume label with a drive letter, 
there must be a way to script this association, whether 
using Cygwin shell commands directly or indirectly through 
DOS commands.
Using blkid(8), from the util-linux package, I can get a device 
name from a label:
$ blkid -L CRUZER
/dev/sdc1
Now, if I'm on the right path, how can I associate that 
block-special file with a drive letter or a /cygdrive/x 
path reference?
--Ken Nellis