determining this UUID stuff

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 00:13 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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!
----
well, technically, it only lists physical devices and if you have an lvm
setup with swap and logical volumes, it may require you to execute
lvdisplay to see them.

As for arguments, it actually has a man page

Craig


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