UUID

[Derek Broughton]

David McGlone wrote:

> On Friday 19 October 2007 5:28:27 pm Yogich7230 wrote:
>> How does one find out what the UUID of a drive partition is?  Once a
>> backup is restored, one plays a little hell getting partitions to mount,
>> since the UUID is different.
> 
> cat /etc/fstab

er, no.  If he's having trouble getting it to mount, then the one in fstab
isn't the one actually on the partition ...

"sudo vol_id /dev/xxxx" will tell you what the UUID for partition /dev/xxxx
is.
-- 
derek