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How to find out UUID of a non-block USB device?
In a nutshell, the device I have is not a block device so blkid command doesn't suit me. But at least I can get some info about my device via lsusb -v command although it doesn't contain its UUID.
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Trying to display a NIC's uuid
I'm trying badly to find my NIC's uuid but without success.
I know that blkid will give me uuid for the disks, but is there an equivalent command for NIC's uuid?
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UUID Of A drive that won't show up in /dev/disk/by-uuid or blkid
I have a USB drive that is not receiving a UUID. When I look at the contents of the /dev/disk/by-uuid it doesn't exist there. The dev point that the partition lives in is on /dev/sdb. I am able to ...
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Error mounting drive with fstab
I have an small server in my house with an external usb 2TB hard drive:
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="Data" UUID="eedc3098-221d-4800-b8b4-efa4fef23f5f" TYPE="ext4"
I have the next line in /etc/fstab:
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How do you dual boot Debian and FreeBSD using GRUB2?
I've been trying to install FreeBSD alongside my Debian installation in a single partition. All examples readily present on the Internet had shortcomings:
Some required chainloading the FreeBSD ...
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“Removing leftover files … Unknown user 'uuidd'. [FAIL]” on a fresh Arch Linux installation
I just fresh installed Arch Linux reecently and when booting i can spot a warning:
Removing leftover files [BUSY] [/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/uuidd.conf:1] Unknown user 'uuidd'. [FAIL]
What could this ...
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UUID based on global MAC address
I used the uuid command from the uuid-1.6.2-8.fc17.x86_64 package to generate version 1 UUIDs. The man page said that the default is to use the real MAC address of the host, but when I decoded the ...
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Can I substitute partition number with UUID?
Here is my grub.cfg:
menuentry 'Debian 6.0 on hard disk' {
set isofile="(hd0,6)/home/toinstall/debian.iso"
loopback loop $isofile
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root ...
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Why did dd create a different uuid?
root@debian:/home/tiger# dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=10240k
11447+1 records in
11447+1 records out
120034123776 bytes (120 GB) copied, 4729.59 s, 25.4 MB/s
root@debian:/home/tiger# blkid
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How can I look up a username by id in linux?
The command id can be used to look up a user's uid, for example:
$ id -u ubuntu
1000
Is there a command to lookup up a username from a uid? I realize this can be done by looking at the /etc/passwd ...
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Generate a key (number?) based on part of the machine's hardware components
I'm wondering what is the best way to manually generate a hardware key based on certain components of the machine.
Here's the thing: I want only certain type of machines to be able to communicate ...
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How to run custom scripts upon USB device plug-in?
What is the state-of-the-art method for automatically executing custom scripts upon USB device plug-in under current Linux distributions like Debian/CentOS/Fedora?
For example if you want to ...
