On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> wrote:
> Canek Peláez Valdés writes:
[ snip ]
>> Oh, and I forgot; doesn't the links in /dev/disk/by-id,
>> /dev/disk/by-label, /dev/disk/by-uuid do what you want to?
>
> Those seem to list partitions only, not whole drives. A label for a drive
> would be nice to have.

I'm pretty sure whole drives are there also:

$ ll /dev/disk/by-id
...
ata-SAMSUNG_HD160JJ_S08HJ10YC13279 -> ../../sda
...

That's a whole drive right there.

Regards.
-- 
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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