what is UUID naming for devices?

[David Koski]

On Sunday 08 July 2007 13:04, Derek Broughton wrote:
> David Koski wrote:
> > On Sunday 08 July 2007 12:01, SteVe Cook wrote:
> >> vol_id /dev/sda4
>
> sudo vol_id /dev/sda4
>
> > Unless /lib/udev is in your path you will probably have to use:
> >
> > /lib/udev/sda4
>
> That doesn't make any sense to me.  First, "path" is relevant to how the
> system finds an executable, not a device, and second, /lib/udev doesn't
> contain any block devices that I can see.
>
> Ah.  I think you must have meant:
>
> /lib/udev/vol_id /dev/sda4

Of course your are correct.

> but /lib/udev/vol_id is just a link to /sbin/vol_id - which _should_ be in
> your path - and it _still_ needs to be run as sudo.

Just for completeness, it is not symlinked on systems I checked.

Thanks,
David