UUID for USB devices

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Fri Oct 28 05:04:38 UTC 2011


On 10/28/2011 07:25 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> Under Fedora 14 the following procedure worked for discovering the UUID 
> for a USB device.
>
> Insert device
> Look in /dev/disk/by-label for device
> Use file cmd to find device assigned
> Look in /dev/disk/by-uuid for the UUID assigned (link to same device)
>
> Alas, that no longer works. Anyone have an up-to-date procedure?
>
> Thanks.
>

Works fine for me on a fully updated F15 system...


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