[PLUG] Identifying Device UUID

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sat Oct 30 12:13:54 UTC 2010


On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, Daniel Pittman wrote:

> That means you want: blkid /dev/sda1  # or whatever raw device it is at.

Daniel,

   That's the conundrum: with the fstab entry linking a mount point to a UUID
there is no entry in /dev/. What I read is that udevd does its thing based
on UUID so, perhaps in the not-so-distant-future, the entire /dev directory
will be deprecated.

Rich



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