On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>wrote:

>
> On 24 Jan 2010, at 03:53, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
>  I used to have a vol_id command to discover the UUIDs of my partitions.
>> I just connected some new SATA drives and I cannot find that utility.  Did I
>> just imagine it, or has something else happened?
>>
>
> Sorry if this is a dumb response, but have you partitioned &/or formatted
> them?
>
> Here I would use `ls -lG /dev/disk/by-uuid/` to find UUIDs. A drive that
> was hot-swapped in, partitioned & formatted since the system was booted is
> showing.
>
> Please excuse me if I'm misunderstanding your question.
>
> Stroller.
>
> As it happens, these were Fantom Green drives, which come with NTFS, but I
had just reformatted with ext4.

Thanks, though, I didn't know about that /dev/disk thing either...

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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