On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 04:06:43PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Sat, 13 Nov 2021 16:57:01 -0500 > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > > So which of these various UUID's is actually valid in an fstab > > Thanks, Andy. This is nice to know about. > > Gene, the answer is, anythng the TYPE of which is a valid file system. > Try, e.g.: > > blkid | grep -E -i \(ext\|ntfs\|fat\)
lsblk is a lot easier and prettier for this purpose. unicorn:~$ sudo lsblk -o +UUID NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT UUID sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 260M 0 part /boot/efi 4C30-7972 ├─sda2 8:2 0 16M 0 part ├─sda3 8:3 0 92.2G 0 part 7294B93794B8FEA3 ├─sda4 8:4 0 980M 0 part 609E71C79E71966E ├─sda5 8:5 0 11.5G 0 part 6858F6A458F66FE4 ├─sda6 8:6 0 11.2G 0 part [SWAP] 08c87bdb-17f4-40ab-9b2f-5cb2f29149fb ├─sda7 8:7 0 23.3G 0 part / c4691ccb-2090-491e-8e82-d7cc822db04a ├─sda8 8:8 0 23.3G 0 part /home 19fb397b-a113-4536-a03d-d60e176cbfdf └─sda9 8:9 0 651.9G 0 part /stuff 95058c4a-44e2-4a90-87b5-2a5fe40d3cdb sr0 11:0 1 418.7M 0 rom