On 2010-03-21 07:03, Arthur Marsh wrote:
Constantine wrote, on 05/03/10 23:24:blkid On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> wrote:Hi, Recent udev packges in squeeze/sid lack vol_id command since 22 Aug 2009 (146-1). What is the best way to obtain UUID of partition? I could read it like ... $ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid|grep sda4 Is this the best way? Any thoughts ? Osamuhttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=565124 man -k uuid will *not* find the blkid man page )-:.Also, how does one set the UUID of a currently in use swap partition (such as one created before the mkswap command added a UUID by default) *without* re-running mkswap?
*You* should not need to set the UUID. It should just magically be there.
$ /sbin/blkid -t TYPE=swap /dev/sdb1: TYPE="swap" LABEL="swap1" \ UUID="c69f59ff-b928-4232-b44c-8da0f12c52db"Or did my (regularly updated Sid) system "get what it needed" before Aug-2009?
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