Finding out the UUID of partitions

By halfgaar | On December 28, 2009 at 17:12 | 2 comments

Often, Linux software configurations define partitions by there UUID as opposed to their /dev device. You can find out what the UUID is with: 

blkid /dev/sdx

Or, you can do: 

ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid
    Posted by halfgaar on December 28, 2009 at 17:12

    2 Comments ( Add comment / trackback )

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      Comment by chrissy
      On January 5, 2010 at 08:05

      Just a note: blkid requires elevated privileges to show anything useful (this is true for the version in Ubuntu 8.04, anyway).

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      Comment by halfgaar
      On January 6, 2010 at 00:26

      Not really a problem, since the only time I need a UUID, is when I’m root 🙂