Vol (command)

Vol (command)

In some operating systems (e.g., DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows) vol is a command within the command line interpreters (shells) such as COMMAND.COM and cmd.exe. It is used display the volume label and serial number on a logical drive, such as a hard disk partition or a floppy disk, if they exist.

yntax

vol [Drive:]

Arguments:
*Drive: This command-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 with MS-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. The vol command displays the volume labels consecutively.

Examples

OS/2

[C:] vol C:

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

Windows Vista

C:Users oot>vol C:Volume in drive C is VistaVolume Serial Number is 080F-100B

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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