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 ?

score 31 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 27 '23 at 15:27

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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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By default, ll is an alias of ls -alF.

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Pablo Bianchi

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answered Dec 05 '13 at 14:34

Mitch

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score 24 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 24 '15 at 15:04

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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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A.B.

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answered Oct 24 '15 at 15:00

Ali

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Oddly this comes up empty if you've just installed formatted and mounted a new drive. – hobs Sep 17 '16 at 19:28
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Except that the OP asked "other than using the blkid command" – James Bradbury Aug 05 '17 at 07:51

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 05 '13 at 14:24

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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

answered Dec 05 '13 at 14:24

Oli

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the above command doesn't display anything. – Avinash Raj Dec 05 '13 at 14:27
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I think there is not dm-1 in our case, "ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid" works alone but "ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid | grep dm-1" did nothing. – Sukupa91 Dec 05 '13 at 15:09
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Exactly. As I explained in the answer, in my case my root device is /dev/dm-1. In your case it could be /dev/sda1, or something like that. – Oli Dec 05 '13 at 15:25

How to find the attached devices UUID through terminal?

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