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Darren_Dunham's avatar
Darren_Dunham
Level 6
12 years ago

Mapping "mountvol" ID to specific volume

If I run "mountvol", it will show me the volumes that I can map to a drive letter or to a path.  But it only gives me a windows drive ID.

 

How do I map this ID to a specific running volume?  I can't give the storage foundation path to the volume, it just whines when I try.  But I need to programmatically mount the correct volume. 

Thanks!

(mountvol output:)



Possible values for VolumeName along with current mount points are:


    \\?\Volume{3b9a0744-7199-11e0-a472-806e6f6e6963}\

	        C:\


    \\?\Volume{3b9a0745-7199-11e0-a472-806e6f6e6963}\

	        D:\


    \\?\Volume{5965b149-0fea-46da-a0e5-0deeef166486}\

	        *** NO MOUNT POINTS ***


    \\?\Volume{84e9b221-41ab-4685-be03-7e0abef75ae8}\

	        *** NO MOUNT POINTS ***
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  • mikebounds's avatar
    mikebounds
    12 years ago
    You should use "vxassist assign" rathert than mountvol and then you specify diskgroup and volume:
    

    vxassist -g dg_name assign vol_name DriveLetter={A|B .. Z}
    

    If you want to map GUID to volume name, then use "vxprint -l" and this gives you the volu
    

    Mike
  • mikebounds's avatar
    mikebounds
    Level 6
    12 years ago
    You should use "vxassist assign" rathert than mountvol and then you specify diskgroup and volume:
    

    vxassist -g dg_name assign vol_name DriveLetter={A|B .. Z}
    

    If you want to map GUID to volume name, then use "vxprint -l" and this gives you the volu
    

    Mike
  • Darren_Dunham's avatar
    Darren_Dunham
    Level 6
    12 years ago
    Righto!  My Windows-fu is limited.  Thank you for that!
    

    I had been looking for the mapping in vxprint, but the volumes themselves don't have anything like a GUID.  There is one on the plex, but I'm not going to mount that.