> Etienne Goyer 
> Please respond to "This is the lpi-examdev mailing list."
> 
> G. Matthew Rice wrote:
> > Etienne Goyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> Ian Shields wrote:
> >>> FWIW, the blkid command helps a lot with figuring out UUIDs. 
> >> And so does vol_id.
> > 
> > Forgot to ask, "are both of these commands ubiquitous or are either 
distro
> > specific?"
> 
> Not 100% sure, as I have been pretty exclusive to Ubuntu in the past
> couple years, but blkid is part of e2fsprogs, and vol_id is part of 
udev.
> 
> -- 
> Etienne Goyer                                       0x3106BCC2

I think vol_id is in the usual path on Ubuntu, but it is not in Fedora (9 
at least). blkid on fedora 9 is in /sbin. Output format is different 
(vol_id is optimized for use by udev). Here's a sample for a single drive. 
By default, blkid lists this information for all block devices.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# /sbin/blkid /dev/sdb13
/dev/sdb13: LABEL="FC9-64" UUID="e8292a1f-c5e5-4b41-abab-3bc8596f2287" 
TYPE="ext3" SEC_TYPE="ext2"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# /lib/udev/vol_id /dev/sdb13
ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem
ID_FS_TYPE=ext3
ID_FS_VERSION=1.0
ID_FS_UUID=e8292a1f-c5e5-4b41-abab-3bc8596f2287
ID_FS_UUID_ENC=e8292a1f-c5e5-4b41-abab-3bc8596f2287
ID_FS_LABEL=FC9-64
ID_FS_LABEL_ENC=FC9-64
ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE=FC9-64

Ian Shields Ph.D.
Linux  Technologist, ISV & Developer Relations
IBM Corp
Research Triangle Park, NC
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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