réjean Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 (edited) Hi all! I just came across this command ( which most of you probably know about already ) that gives me the different UUIDs; [rejean@localhost ~]$ su Password: [root@localhost rejean]#blkid /dev/sda5: UUID="811287af-bf38-4283-a98c-f9ee0b50156e" TYPE="swap" /dev/sda2: UUID="fb738529-32d4-4fb2-bb78-ed0133ce3124" TYPE="ext3" /dev/sda6: UUID="2c2df885-c0fa-4f6a-9358-8b49c597448d" TYPE="ext3" /dev/sda7: LABEL="/" UUID="57600f4c-54b1-4160-8802-c91fd3a0ac6f" TYPE="ext3" /dev/sda8: LABEL="arch" UUID="f15dc35a-4c31-410f-be8c-5c1ed4e0e69f" TYPE="ext3" /dev/sda9: LABEL="archhome" UUID="ff2e1413-9bd0-4666-acb4-5e3d57188864" TYPE="ext3" /dev/sda10: UUID="5ee8a944-e21e-43e9-840d-f465271dee09" TYPE="ext3" /dev/sda11: UUID="2B32-81E1" TYPE="vfat" /dev/sdb1: UUID="08E47FFB6129920C" TYPE="ntfs" /dev/sdb2: UUID="c4f611e6-8dad-4f3f-97a5-7ee0a2005ea2" TYPE="swap" /dev/sdb3: UUID="481426bb-fa3e-44cc-a266-c84297f2803e" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sdb5: UUID="ee0c4924-38ac-4d34-9df0-66382d3809fc" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sdb6: UUID="2d221787-38ab-41f9-bf46-65701a834bdf" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sdb7: UUID="4ddf18a8-c8be-4af8-a2d9-924599a1b13e" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sdb8: UUID="077c8180-a635-4654-b1ee-2eecd92c9a60" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sdb9: UUID="4481f156-86d9-429c-9a3d-ee2d44644ada" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sdb10: UUID="32299FED1248C8F3" TYPE="ntfs" /dev/sda1: UUID="048201C74C181A59" TYPE="ntfs" [root@localhost rejean]# I thought I would share it with you. P.S. I don't know why but no matter what I install on /sda8 and /sda9 ( like right now it is Mandriva 2011 which I will replace today with CentOS 6.2 ) they keep being called /arch and /archhome. Not that it frustrates me, just wondering. Edited March 9, 2012 by réjean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 Yes. That is a handy tool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 Also, you should not have to run it as root to get the blkid number: ╔═ comhack@Cerberus 09:59 AM ╚═══ ~-> blkid /dev/sda1: UUID="F8685B2D685AE9C0" TYPE="ntfs" /dev/sda2: UUID="ede3bd20-4177-4bca-b6ae-40b00d79dfd2" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sda3: UUID="93723ccc-25e8-4483-ba61-dd8854528774" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sda4: UUID="f1163b53-6a30-47fc-8ae8-a5f3b9940897" TYPE="swap" /dev/sdb1: UUID="3067b591-934e-4c73-a4a7-e5d9da6c267a" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sdb2: UUID="ce9619d8-3c05-4897-962a-6929b2995737" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sdb3: UUID="a97856fe-abca-4dd6-b418-e164818c9016" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sdc1: LABEL="MEDIA" UUID="cb0d6b0f-1c2a-46c8-99eb-bbe4e1bcb1b5" TYPE="ext4" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
réjean Posted March 9, 2012 Author Share Posted March 9, 2012 good point about not having to get the info as root Josh. I was going to do something else and then I remembered reading about blkid last night so I decided to give it a try while I was in a terminal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 good point about not having to get the info as root Josh. I was going to do something else and then I remembered reading about blkid last night so I decided to give it a try while I was in a terminal. Understood Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burninbush Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 P.S. I don't know why but no matter what I install on /sda8 and /sda9 ( like right now it is Mandriva 2011 which I will replace today with CentOS 6.2 ) they keep being called /arch and /archhome. Not that it frustrates me, just wondering. My instant guess is that at some time in the past you labeled them that way (or maybe an Arch install script did it), and subsequent installs have not changed the partition labels. Try running #cfdisk /dev/sda -- it should reveal the labels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 My instant guess is that at some time in the past you labeled them that way (or maybe an Arch install script did it), and subsequent installs have not changed the partition labels. Try running #cfdisk /dev/sda -- it should reveal the labels. Actually that sounds more like another distro labeled them that ways as Arch does not label your partitions or it does not on any of my machines. For instance, when I installed Foresight it labeled the Arch partitions as yours above but only inside Foresight. Now that I think about it, it may or may not of been Foresight that did that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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