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.
-Philip
Thanks guys.
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