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[réjean]

Hi all!
I just came across this command ( which most of you probably know about already ) that gives me the different UUIDs;

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[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 by réjean, 09 March 2012 - 11:55 AM.

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Yes. That is a handy tool.

[securitybreach]

Also, you should not have to run it as root to get the blkid number:

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╔═ 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"

[réjean]

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.

[securitybreach]

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

[burninbush]

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.

[securitybreach]

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.