Bug#595732: release-notes: use 'vol_id' to get UUID, in section 4.8.1 of the notes
Package: release-notes
Severity: normal
hi,
section 4.8.1 says
To implement the UUID approach Find out the universally unique identifier
of your filesystem by issuing:
ls -l dev/disk/by-uuid | grep hda6
You should get a line similar to this one:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2008-09-25 08:16 d0dfcc8a-417a-41e3-ad2e-9736317f2d8a -> ../../hda6
This does not always work as expected: for example, for people using crypt
filesystem, RAID or LVM, the above looks like
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 6 set 08:28 0253e19c-2e69-4720-a59a-2062d82ea8fd -> ../../dm-6
and then it is difficult to associate dm-6 to the device that is listed by 'mount' or 'df'
There is a much better way to find out UUID for devices: use
vol_id --uuid DEVICE
this is more straightforward, does not need any backward guessing
I recommend documenting it in the release notes
a.
ps: 'vol_id' is part of 'udev' in Debian/lenny
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.6
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-openvz-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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Andrea Mennucc
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being who wants me to know what I can do."
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