KnowingUUIDs

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1. Knowing UUID and other IDs of block devices

note: this is not only for disks physical partitions, bul also for multi-disk devices (RAID) and logical volume devices (LVM)

1.1. blkid

  • this will list UUID for all known block devices 
    <user>@<host>:~$ blkid
/dev/sda1: LABEL="sda1-boot-2GB" UUID="a596c61a-16b7-4967-890a-38022722b04d" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda2: ...

1.2. vol_id

Info (!) this command is part of udev package and must be run with administratives privileges (as root or with sudo)

  • short ID list for one device 
    <user>@<host>:~# vol_id /dev/sda1
ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem
ID_FS_TYPE=ext3
ID_FS_VERSION=1.0
ID_FS_UUID=a596c61a-16b7-4967-890a-38022722b04d
ID_FS_UUID_ENC=a596c61a-16b7-4967-890a-38022722b04d
ID_FS_LABEL=sda1-boot-2GB
ID_FS_LABEL_ENC=sda1-boot-2GB
ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE=sda1-boot-2GB
  • this is just the UUID for one device 
    <user>@<host>:~# vol_id -u /dev/sda1
a596c61a-16b7-4967-890a-38022722b04d

1.3. udevadm

Info (!) this command is part of udev package and must be run with administratives privileges (as root or with sudo)

Warning /!\ this command seems to replace the former udevinfo command

  • the following command (see the short form below) does list the env part of the udev db content, for one device. Valid queries are: name, symlink, path, env, all. 

    <user>@<host>:~# udevadm info --query=env --name=/dev/sda1
ID_VENDOR=ATA
ID_MODEL=Hitachi_HDT72503
ID_REVISION=V54O
ID_SERIAL=1ATA_Hitachi_HDT725032VLA360_xxx
ID_SERIAL_SHORT=ATA_Hitachi_HDT725032VLA360_xxx
ID_TYPE=disk
ID_BUS=scsi
ID_ATA_COMPAT=Hitachi_HDT725032VLA360_xxx
ID_PATH=pci-0000:00:05.0-scsi-0:0:0:0
ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem
ID_FS_TYPE=ext3
ID_FS_VERSION=1.0
ID_FS_UUID=a596c61a-16b7-4967-890a-38022722b04d
ID_FS_UUID_ENC=a596c61a-16b7-4967-890a-38022722b04d
ID_FS_LABEL=sda1-boot-2GB
ID_FS_LABEL_ENC=sda1-boot-2GB
ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE=sda1-boot-2GB

  • this short form is not documented in udevadm man and has been borrowed from an udevinfo example: 

    <user>@<host>:~# udevadm info -q env -n /dev/sda1

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