Boot Disk

Frank Murphy frankly3d at gmail.com
Fri Dec 30 15:15:08 UTC 2011


On 30/12/11 15:10, Alan Cox wrote:
>> Agreed. But you have to *know* the drive serial number or UUID to do
>> that. And there is, of course, a high probability that you will not have
>> that information available.
>
> It's in procfs, sysfs, ioctls and via dmesg. It's not hard to get at !
> and if you are doing it in advance you can also use labels which are even
> easier to remember than uuids
>
> Alan

If the labels are worn off / inaccessible
you can install hardware lister:
yum install lshw (lshw-gui)
which will return the serial numbers.


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Frank Murphy
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