On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 05:52 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 01:31 -0700, jdow wrote: > > > $blkid /dev/sda1 > > /dev/sda1: LABEL="/boot-7" UUID="bfe129cd-8087-4c0b-aad1-08508b7adee2" > > SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" > > > > It works by partition not drive. > ---- > I think it is more like, you won't see the results you expect if you > supply /dev/sdX as the argument because /dev/sdX is a physical device > and not a block device to Linux. Physical drives are block devices too: $ ls -l /dev/sda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 2009-04-25 18:06 /dev/sda Note the 'b' at the start of the output line. Filesystem or swap formatting *may* be applied at the drive level, but is almost always applied at the partion level, so in the vast majority of cases you will need to supply a partition ID to the blkid command (ie., the argument to blkid needs to be the same argument that was supplied to mkfs or mkswap -- drive if the drive was formatted, partition if a partition was formatted, LV if an LV was formatted). -Chris -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
