How To Find The UUID of a Device or Filesystem in Linux
UUID stands for Universally Unique IDentifier is a unique tag assigned to each and every device partitions attached to the system. Have you ever seen entry in “/etc/fstab” file wherein 128-bits Hex numbers separated by hyphens that looks like UUID=”6085679d-f72c-425c-8b00-2d1eb0eb5efe”. Such entries are called universally unique identifiers (UUID). This to make hard drive management easier. …