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blkid — List all recognized partitions and their Universally Unique Identifier (UUID). More information: <ht

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Problem

How to use the blkid command: List all recognized partitions and their Universally Unique Identifier (UUID). More information: <https://manned.org/blkid>.

Solution

blkid — List all recognized partitions and their Universally Unique Identifier (UUID). More information: <https://manned.org/blkid>.

List all partitions:

sudo blkid

List all partitions in a table, including current mountpoints:

sudo blkid {{[-o|--output]}} list

Get the UUID of the filesystem on a partition:

sudo blkid {{[-s|--match-tag]}} UUID {{[-o|--output]}} value {{/dev/sdXY}}

Code Snippets

List all partitions

sudo blkid

List all partitions in a table, including current mountpoints

sudo blkid {{[-o|--output]}} list

Get the UUID of the filesystem on a partition

sudo blkid {{[-s|--match-tag]}} UUID {{[-o|--output]}} value {{/dev/sdXY}}

Context

tldr-pages: linux/blkid

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