Win32 System Services: The Heart of Windows® 98 and Windows® 2000

3.2. Getting Volume Information

You can obtain information about any volume available locally on your machine or mounted over the network using the GetVolumeInformation function. Listing 3.1 demonstrates this function.

Code Listing 3.1. Results of the GetVolumeInformation function

// drvgvi.cpp #include <windows.h> #include <iostream.h> void main() { BOOL success; char volumeName[MAX_PATH]; DWORD volumeSerialNumber; DWORD maxNameLength; DWORD fileSystemFlags; char systemName[MAX_PATH]; // get the volume information for drive C success = GetVolumeInformation("c:\\", volumeName, MAX_PATH, &volumeSerialNumber, &maxNameLength, &fileSystemFlags, systemName, MAX_PATH); // output information cout << "Volume name: " << volumeName << endl; cout << "Volume ...