determining this UUID stuff

[Gene Heskett]

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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