what on earth is blkid doing?

[Michael Schwendt]

On 03/05/07, Tom Horsley wrote:
>
> > man blkid   ->   /etc/blkid/blkid.tab
> >
> > sound very much like what you are in search of.
>
> I eventually found that, but I still am curious
> when it gets updated. Do udev rules trigger it?
> Is hal involved? I know I don't have to actually
> mount the dvd to have the blkid info updated.

blkid is run at boot-time at least, for example.