Re: UUID
Re: UUID
- Subject: Re: UUID
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:48:33 -0600
- Thread-topic: UUID
On 01/31/2008 14:31 PM, "Skeeve" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> You're hitting the difference between a physical disk and a volume. Physical
>> disks don't have UUIDs, volumes do. /dev is a physical disk driver location,
>> /Volumes or / is where volumes are mounted.
>>
>> What you need is the volume mount, which in that terminology would be
>> something like disk0s3 or disk 0, slice/volume 3
>>
>>
> I beg to differ.
>
> no matter what I enter:
> diskutil info '/Volumes/Macintosh HD'
> diskutil info /
> diskutil info /dev/disk0s3
>
> I always get the UUID
Those are all volumes, which is what I said. Try using diskutil info disk0
and see what happens.
>
> But if I use '/Volumes/NO NAME' or /dev/disk3s5 (my FAT32 drive) I get
> no UUID
Not all volumes have UUIDs. Not all volumes show up in diskutil. For
example, I have an AFP volume and an SMB volume mounted. However, none of
them show up in diskutil even though they are definitely in /Volumes. A
volume is not a volume is not a volume.
--
If I wanted to hear the pitter-patter of little feet, I'd put shoes on my
cat.
Anon.
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