UUID

[Michael Bach (gmx)]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> 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.

A tool I used in the past was "disktype". It lists information about 
partions or lists partions with their inforamtion for a whole drive. 
Amongst the partition info are the filetype and the UUID.