[PLUG] Identifying Device UUID

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Gerald Turner wrote:

> Could the problem be that you've changed your external drive to vfat?

   Not unless it was the rainy weather. It's ext3.

> I just tried a USB stick formatted with vfat, at first 'blkid' didn't
> report any information for it (maybe blkid is using a cache, or maybe it's
> ignoring vfat partitions), but then ran 'blkid -p /dev/sdg1' ("low-level
> probe") and it reported the UUID and other attributes just fine and
> mysteriously, subsequently running just 'blkid' now reports the data.

   Huh! I did not know this tool existed. It's here, too, on Slackware.
Running just 'bklid' with no dev specified found all partitions and returned
the UUID and filesystem type.

   Kewel!

Thanks, Gerald,

Rich