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Avinash Raj
Asked: 2013-12-06 06:20:07 +0800 CST

How to find the attached devices UUID through terminal?

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Is there any other method to find all the attached devices UUID through terminal(other than using the blkidcommand ?

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  1. Best Answer

    Try this, just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, list devices by entering:

    ll /dev/disk/by-uuid

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  2. the best way I found for this is:

    sudo blkid

    for example the output of a specific USB in my Ubuntu is:

    /dev/sda1: LABEL="16GB" UUID="25495C984912BBC3" TYPE="ntfs"
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  3. You can look in /dev/disk/by-uuid/. These files are symlinks to the /dev/... device. For example, my dmraid RAID0 disk (which makes up my root partition is /dev/dm-1 so the following gets its UUID:

    $ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid | grep dm-1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 21 21:07 1b66bb9e-5b02-49f1-8cf9-bc3f649d70a6 -> ../../dm-1
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