Reading Windows Partition Labels

[Gordon Keehn]

Alexander Apprich wrote:

> Hi Mauriat,
>
> Mauriat wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does anyone know of a way to extract in Linux the partition labels for
>> Windows/FAT/NTFS. For example, I dual boot with multiple NTFS
>> partitions. In Windows 2000 they are labeled 'Win200' for C and
>> 'Media' for D, etc. Is there some way to list those labels ('Win2000'
>> and 'Media') in Fedora?
>
>
> AFAIK Windows doesn't label partitions like linux does. But you could
> try parted with the print option.
>
>>
>> Mauriat
>
I believe that Windows stores the disk label in an entry in the root 
directory;  at least that's how it was done for xFAT drives.
    Cheers,
Gordon Keehn