retitle 595732 release-notes: use 'blkid' to get UUID, in section 4.8.1 thanks
Hi, On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 10:30:12AM +0200, A Mennucc wrote: > Package: release-notes > Severity: normal ... > 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 Yes, it was. | udev (146-1) experimental; urgency=low | | * New upstream release. | + vol_id and libvolume_id have been removed. (Closes: #500883, #534765) | Breaks: dmsetup (<< 2.02.51-1), mdadm (<< 3.0-3) | + Introduced libgudev-1.0. | + Finally removed the udevinfo compatibility symlink. | + Applies ACLs on /dev nodes if ConsoleKit is active. | * Added patch test_for_glib: do not run udev-acl unless glib is installed. | * Stop copying /etc/udev/rules.d/ in the initramfs. | * Renamed some rules files for uniformity with other distributions: | 50-udev.rules => 50-udev-default.rules, | 95-late.rules => 95-udev-late.rules. | | -- Marco d'Itri <[email protected]> Sat, 22 Aug 2009 05:50:20 +0200 I used to document vol_id for "Debian Reference". Then someone told me it is not available in squeeze. Now I write as: | TIP: You can probe UUID of a block special device with blkid(8). http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch09.en.html#_accessing_partition_using_uuid Other than vol_id -> blkid, this is good point raised. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
