Vol (command)

vol
The Windows XP vol command
Developers	DR, Microsoft, IBM, Toshiba, ReactOS Contributors
Initial release	March 1983;42 years ago (1983-03)
Operating system	MS-DOS, PC DOS, MSX-DOS, FlexOS, SISNE plus, OS/2, eComStation, ArcaOS, DR DOS, ROM-DOS, 4690 OS, PTS-DOS, Windows, FreeDOS, ReactOS
Platform	Cross-platform
Type	Command

The ReactOS vol command

vol is a shell command that reports identifying information about an accessible volume (a.k.a. logical drive) including its label and serial number.

The command is available in shells COMMAND.COM and cmd.exe . ^[1] It is available in various operating systems including versions of DOS, ^[2] FlexOS, ^[3] 4690 OS, ^[4] OS/2, ^[5] Windows, ^[6] ReactOS, ^[7] PTS-DOS 2000 Pro, ^[8] and EFI shell. ^[9] In MS-DOS, it is available in versions 2 and later. ^[10]

The dir command also displays the volume label and serial number (if any).

Use

The command reports information about the volume associated with the working directory by default. If a drive letter is specified, then the command reports information about its associated volume. On Windows, the volume serial number is displayed only for disks formatted with MS-DOS version 4.0 or later. OS/2 allows the user to specify more than one drive.

Examples

In OS/2, the command line vol C: reports the label as "OS/2" and the serial number as "0815:1611" like:

The volume label in drive C is OS/2. The Volume Serial Number is 0815:1611. 

In Windows, the command line vol C: reports the label as "Windows" and the serial number as "080F-100B" like:

Volume in drive C is WindowsVolume Serial Number is 080F-100B

If drive C: had no label, "has no label" would have shown instead of "is Windows".

Supported file systems

• FAT12
• FAT16
• FAT32
• exFAT
• NTFS

See also

• Label (command) — Used to create, change and delete the disk volume label.
• List of DOS commands

References

1. MS-DOS and Windows command line vol command
2. Jamsa, Kris A. (1993), DOS: The Complete Reference, Osborne McGraw-Hill, ISBN   0078819040.
3. "FlexOS™ User's Guide" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-09-25.
4. "Unknown".^{[ permanent dead link ]}
5. "JaTomes Help - OS/2 Commands". Archived from the original on 2019-04-14. Retrieved 2019-07-21.
6. Microsoft TechNet Vol article
7. "Reactos/Reactos". GitHub . 4 November 2021.
8. "PTS-DOS 2000 Pro User Manual" (PDF). Buggingen, Germany: Paragon Technology GmbH. 1999. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2018-05-12. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
9. "EFI Shells and Scripting". Intel . Retrieved 2013-09-25.
10. Wolverton, Van (2003). Running MS-DOS Version 6.22 (20th Anniversary Edition), 6th Revised edition. Microsoft Press. ISBN   0-7356-1812-7.

Further reading

• Cooper, Jim (2001). Special Edition Using MS-DOS 6.22, Third Edition. Que Publishing. ISBN   978-0789725738.
• Tim O'Reilly; Troy Mott; Walter Glenn (1999). Windows 98 in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference . O'Reilly. ISBN   978-1565924864.
• John Paul Mueller (2007). Windows Administration at the Command Line for Windows Vista, Windows 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN   978-0470165799.

External links

• vol | Microsoft Docs