Volume Name Icon Reader

What is it?

Volume Name Icon Reader is a (very) small tool capable of reading the image file Mac OS X will use to display the volume name when booting with the alt key down. You can see this article for more explanations.

Example of Use

Type the following in Terminal (this is innocent: it will just copy a file on your desktop and make it visible):

cp /System/Library/CoreServices/.disk_label ~/Desktop/file.vollabel
chflags nohidden ~/Desktop/file.vollabel

Then just open the file file.vollabel on your desktop (after installing/compiling Volume Name Icon Reader on your machine, indeed!).