determining this UUID stuff

jdow jdow at earthlink.net
Sun Apr 26 08:31:33 UTC 2009


From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
Sent: Saturday, 2009/April/25 21:13


> On Saturday 25 April 2009, Philip A. Prindeville wrote:
>>Craig White wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 13:00 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>> Greetings;
>>>>
>>>> I had to replace a terrabyte drive a few days ago, and I'm mounting it 
>>>> in
>>>> fstab by its label.
>>>>
>>>> How does one go about determining the UUID of this replacement device 
>>>> so
>>>> I can make my fstab more uniform in its use?
>>>
>>> ----
>>> blkid
>
> Returned null.  Oh, no argument, then it works.  Including for swaps!
>
>>> Craig
>>
>>Or else "hal-device", which also works with swap partitions, etc.
>
> This worked, but boy is it verbose.

$blkid /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1: LABEL="/boot-7" UUID="bfe129cd-8087-4c0b-aad1-08508b7adee2" 
SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"

It works by partition not drive.

{^_-} 




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