what is UUID naming for devices?

[Ari Sarkar]

On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 13:42 -0700, David Koski wrote:
> 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
> 

Thanks all. It's working perfectly. I've learned one new thing.

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Ari Sarkar
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