Monday, October 29, 2007

How to find the UUID of device?

You can use the following command to find the UUID of devices in Linux
ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/

This works with Ubuntu. Not sure about other distros.
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7 comments:

  1. Unknown3:54 PM

    This actually works on any disto using udev v100 or better. Some older versions may work as well, but I have been able to use since at least 100. Gentoo and Ubuntu FTW

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  2. Anonymous11:51 AM

    Don't forget to restart udev if you would like to have new volumes you may have created (e.g. logical volumes) to show up in this directory.

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  3. Joe Pea (trusktr)11:12 PM

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  4. Maxpolaris5:00 PM

    very cool! I had no idea the ls command could do that! I've spent so much time looking for such an easy way to find that info. Thanx!!!!

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  5. Maxpolaris5:05 PM

    ps it worked on PCLinuxOS KDE
    I will check
    Damn Small Linux TinyCore Slax Slitaz Mint 10 Puppy and Suse 11 later!

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  6. Anonymous11:34 PM

    Works in Fedora 16. Thanks

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  7. Anonymous11:18 AM

    You can also use blkid to find device attributes including the UUID.

    blkid /dev/sda1

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