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LibreCrypt: Transparent on-the-fly disk encryption for Windows. LUKS compatible.
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Including a HD id into the partition selection window #27

Open darioguarascio opened 9 years ago

darioguarascio commented 9 years ago

I have a home server with 3 external HDd attached. When I have to reboot the system, I am never sure which is the new order of the hard disks decided by windows, and for some reasons I have to assign the same mount letter to the same HD. To obtain so, I rely on a particular ID found in Disks managment > properties of a disk. I was wondering if it was possible / useful to have that ID displaying also in the selection window, to know which physical hd we are dealing with.

t-d-k commented 9 years ago

This should be possible, and is a good idea. You can see more details of a partition in the selection window by selecting it then right-clicking and choosing 'properties', which might help you.

darioguarascio commented 9 years ago

Thanks for the hint, I have never seen that window before, but there is no identifiable field on that, not even the partition length, because, in my case, HDd are all the same model and version.

linux-modder commented 9 years ago

unless something major changed in windows in last 5 years there should still be a UUID to each drive / partition slave the Drive letter to the UUID that way it would always mount as such.

In linux /mac this would be done in the /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab files