vol
TheWindows XPvol 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

In someoperating systems,vol is acommand within thecommand-line interpreters (shells) such asCOMMAND.COM andcmd.exe. It is used to display thevolume label andvolume serial number of alogical drive, such as ahard disk partition or afloppy disk, if they exist.^[1]

The command is available in various versions ofDOS,^[2]DRFlexOS,^[3]IBM/Toshiba4690 OS,^[4] IBMOS/2,^[5]MicrosoftWindows,^[6] andReactOS.^[7]

OnMS-DOS, the command is available in versions 2 and later.^[8]Paragon Technology SystemsPTS-DOS 2000 Pro also includes avol implementation.^[9]

The Windowsdir command also displays the volume label and serial number (if it has one) as part of the directory listing.

The command is also available in theEFI shell.^[10]

vol [Drive:]

Arguments:

• Drive: Thiscommand-line argument specifies the drive letter of the disk for which to display the volume label and serial number.

Note:

• On Windows, the volume serial number is displayed only for disks formatted withMS-DOS version 4.0 or later.
• OS/2 allows the user to specify more than one drive. Thevol command displays the volume labels consecutively.

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

C:\Users\root>vol C:Volume in drive C is WindowsVolume Serial Number is 080F-100B

In the example above, if drive C: has no volume label, "has no label" is shown instead of "is Windows".

• FAT12
• FAT16
• FAT32
• exFAT
• NTFS

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

• 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.

Wikibooks has a book on the topic of:Guide to Windows Commands

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