Is there any other method to find all the attached devices UUID through terminal(other than using the blkid
command ?
3 Answers
Try this, just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, list devices by entering:
ll /dev/disk/by-uuid
By default, ll
is an alias of ls -alF
.
the best way I found for this is:
sudo blkid
for example the output of a specific USB in my Ubuntu is:
/dev/sda1: LABEL="16GB" UUID="25495C984912BBC3" TYPE="ntfs"
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Oddly this comes up empty if you've just installed formatted and mounted a new drive.– hobsSep 17, 2016 at 19:28
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You can look in /dev/disk/by-uuid/
. These files are symlinks to the /dev/...
device. For example, my dmraid RAID0 disk (which makes up my root partition is /dev/dm-1
so the following gets its UUID:
$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid | grep dm-1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 21 21:07 1b66bb9e-5b02-49f1-8cf9-bc3f649d70a6 -> ../../dm-1
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1I think there is not dm-1 in our case, "ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid" works alone but "ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid | grep dm-1" did nothing.– Sukupa91Dec 5, 2013 at 15:09
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1Exactly. As I explained in the answer, in my case my root device is
/dev/dm-1
. In your case it could be/dev/sda1
, or something like that.– Oli ♦Dec 5, 2013 at 15:25