Would the symlinks contained in /dev/disk/by-uuid be sufficient? --Matt
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Michael C Tiernan < [email protected]> wrote: > I am working on a small project and I have the need to identify the root > volume on a running linux system from inside a script. For the moment I'm > in the Red Hat EL environment but I'm expecting it to develop into a wider > application. > > I can quickly and easily do a 'blkid' and get a list of block devices > attached and I can identify the actual drives (major number 8) and I can do > the usual check for "/", etc. but I keep feeling that I'm missing some not > so fringe cases where the boot/root volume may not be screamingly obvious. > > I am wondering if there's some "proper" tool/utility that I can ask > directly and have the system return the authoritative answer. Of course, > finding it in /proc is reasonable since it's much more likely to be an > authoritative answer. > > Anyone have any advice or thoughts? > > Thanks in advance for any help offered. > -- > << MCT >> Michael C Tiernan. > Is God a performance artist? > http://www.linkedin.com/in/mtiernan > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > -- LITTLE GIRL: But which cookie will you eat FIRST? COOKIE MONSTER: Me think you have misconception of cookie-eating process.
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