How Can I Get Exclusive Lock On Drive / Partition Win-Api 32 ?

[lokesh mavale]

how to lock lock on specific drive till i perform some operation of drive.
when i have captured lock on drive .. no other process should able to write on that drive till i release lock on that drive..
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i have found one api.. ie. DeviceIoControl()..
but.. i want access on drive my process only.. but above API 'MAY' block access of all the process!!
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i am not quite sure how lockfile() and lockfileex() works..!!
plz suggest me some way / API/ LOgic to do this!!
thank you !! Smile | :)

[Underactive Moth]

lokesh mavale <lokesh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> how to lock lock on specific drive till i perform some operation of drive.
> when i have captured lock on drive .. no other process should able to write on that drive till i release lock on that drive..

It seems to me that FSCTL_LOCK_VOLUME would be the thing to use:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa364575.aspx

> i have found one api.. ie. DeviceIoControl()..
> but.. i want access on drive my process only.. but above API 'MAY' block access of all the process!!

That is the point of a lock. It prevents other processes from
accessing the resource.

> i am not quite sure how lockfile() and lockfileex() works..!!

LockFile() and LockFileEx() operate on files, not drives or
volumes.

[Uwe Sieber]

The most reliable way is to determine the
volume's location on disk(s) by means of
IOCTL_VOLUME_GET_VOLUME_DISK_EXTENTS, then
"safely remove" the volume by means of
CM_Query_And_Remove_SubTree.
Then you can open the disk device(s) and
write at the volume's location without
hassle.
Afterwards perform a CM_Reenumerate_DevNode
on the root node to bring the volume back
to life.


Uwe