Re: [gentoo-user] Where oh where has my vol_id gone
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.ukwrote: 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
Re: [gentoo-user] Where oh where has my vol_id gone
On Sunday 24 January 2010 03:53:21 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? Hmm, perhaps udev-tools or whichever package that command belonged to has changed? Can you run: blkid and see what you get? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Where oh where has my vol_id gone
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 24 January 2010 03:53:21 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? Hmm, perhaps udev-tools or whichever package that command belonged to has changed? Can you run: blkid and see what you get? BINGO! Thank you very much. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
Re: [gentoo-user] Where oh where has my vol_id gone
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.
Re: [gentoo-user] Where oh where has my vol_id gone
On Sunday 24 January 2010 14:31:40 Stroller wrote: ls -lG /dev/disk/by-uuid/ Yes, this works fine if all you want is the UUIDs, but the blkid command shows other useful stuff too, like mount points, fs type, label names, etc. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Where oh where has my vol_id gone
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? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
