Canek Peláez Valdés writes: > 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.
Wow, now I feel really stupid :) You are so right, they are there, and I don't why I overlooked them... too many entries there maybe, I have 140. But still. Stuuupid! Thanks, Canek! Wonko