From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett(a)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.
{^_-}