Rich Shepard <[email protected]> writes: > How do I determine the UUID for devices such as this external > drive? I've tried 'vol_id', but 'vol_id -u /media/hd0' responds that > it's an unknown or unique media type and I see the same response if I > use --uuid as the option to vol_id. > > A clue stick is needed. >
I use 'blkid' that is part of the util-linux package on Debian, I don't
have a vol_id here.
Could the problem be that you've changed your external drive to vfat?
I just tried a USB stick formatted with vfat, at first 'blkid' didn't
report any information for it (maybe blkid is using a cache, or maybe
it's ignoring vfat partitions), but then ran 'blkid -p /dev/sdg1'
("low-level probe") and it reported the UUID and other attributes just
fine and mysteriously, subsequently running just 'blkid' now reports the
data.
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