determining this UUID stuff

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 01:31 -0700, jdow wrote:

> $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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I think it is more like, you won't see the results you expect if you
supply /dev/sdX as the argument because /dev/sdX is a physical device
and not a block device to Linux.

Thus an apparent non-answer is actually the correct answer returning no
block attributes queried for a physical device.

It's apparent in the first line of the man page...

NAME
 blkid - command-line utility to locate/print block device attributes

Craig


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