It's the USB Label/Volume name for the USB partition. See the following log. We cant get any verbose output for blkid. root:/> cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 8 0 244198584 sda 8 1 1 sda1 8 5 33551721 sda5 8 6 33551721 sda6 8 7 33551721 sda7 8 8 33551721 sda8 8 9 33551721 sda9 8 10 33551721 sda10 8 11 33551721 sda11 8 12 9325701 sda12 root:/> blkid -s TYPE /dev/sda5 root:/> blkid -s UUID /dev/sda5 root:/> BLKID_DEBUG=0xFFFF blkid -p -o /dev/sda5 root:/> Regards, Chinnathambi M -----Original Message----- From: 'Karel Zak' [mailto:kzak@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 3:39 PM To: chinnathambi Cc: 'stephane ancelot'; linux-hotplug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; 'santhosh'; sadasivarao.m@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: How to use blkid for getting USB partition name??? On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 10:25:34AM +0530, chinnathambi wrote: > root:/> blkid -p -o udev /dev/sda5 > root:/> BLKID_DEBUG=0xffff blkid -p -o udev /dev/sda5 > root:/> > root:/> > > I need to extract the USB name. But I cant get it. I don > know whether I am doing anything wrong in the basic level. So please clarify > in this regard. What do you mean with "USB name"? The blkid command returns details about filesystems. Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
