- Vol (command)
In some
operating systems (e.g.,DOS ,OS/2 andMicrosoft Windows )vol
is a command within thecommand line interpreter s (shells) such as
andCOMMAND.COM
. It is used display thecmd.exe volume label andserial number on alogical drive , such as a hard disk partition or afloppy disk , if they exist.yntax
vol [Drive:]
Arguments:
*Drive:
Thiscommand-line argument specifies the drive letter of the disk for which to display the volume label and serial number.Note:
*On Windows, the serial number is displayed only for disks formatted withMS-DOS version 4.0 or later. [ [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb491030.aspx Microsoft TechNet Vol article] ]
*OS/2 allows the user to specify more than one drive. Thevol
command displays the volume labels consecutively.Examples
OS/2
Windows Vista
upported file systems
*FAT12
*FAT16
*FAT32
*exFAT
*NTFS ee also
*
Label (command) — Used to create, change and delete the disk volume label.
*List of DOS commands References
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