determining this UUID stuff

[Philip A. Prindeville]

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
>
> Craig
>
>   

Or else "hal-device", which also works with swap partitions, etc.

-Philip