Show the UUID of a filesystem or partition

ls /dev/disk/by-uuid/ -alh

Doesn't need to be run as root.

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By: John_W

2010-09-04 20:38:28

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Show the UUID of a filesystem or partition

Shows the UUID of the given partition (here /dev/sda7). Doesn't need to be root. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
/dev/sda7: LABEL="fedora" UUID="ab6f0ee7-ebdd-484a-ae1a-c4053a426e0f" TYPE="ext4"
```
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blkid /dev/sda7

lineak · 2010-09-05 12:20:45 7
Show the UUID of a filesystem or partition

Shows the UUID of a filesystem or partition that can be used in kernel root options and in fstab. Run it without the -u option to generate more information. eg: ~/ sudo vol_id /dev/sda2 ID_FS_USAGE=other ID_FS_TYPE=swap ID_FS_VERSION=2 ID_FS_UUID=27fca13d-97b7-4d28-882c-6d03353f0a82 ID_FS_UUID_ENC=27fca13d-97b7-4d28-882c-6d03353f0a82 ID_FS_LABEL= ID_FS_LABEL_ENC= Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
c0cddfdb-8a0b-4b45-afb1-b904825bf31d
```
3

sudo vol_id -u /dev/sda1

agentk · 2009-04-30 01:40:58 5

Show the UUID of a filesystem or partition

Show the UUID-based alternate device names of ZEVO-related partitions on Darwin/OS X. Adapted from the lines by dbrady at http://zevo.getgreenbytes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=700#p700 and following the disk device naming scheme at http://zevo.getgreenbytes.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Site.DiskDeviceNames Show Sample Output

ls /dev/disk* | xargs -n 1 -t sudo zdb -l | grep GPTE_

grahamperrin · 2012-10-06 20:19:45 6

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